Good Girls
Since the pandemic, we’ve been hearing more and more about the mental health crisis impacting teenaged girls. My guest on the program today is a journalist with a special interest in the well-being of young women. In her own adolescence, she was hospitalized nine times for anorexia — which she’s written about in a new book — and in recent years, she has dug into the issue of gender dysphoria, trying to understand the surge of cases among teen girls. It was coverage of gender issues that ultimately led her to part ways with The Guardian, after 22 years with the paper.
Hadley Freeman is a columnist and features writer for the The Sunday Times in London, and a bestselling author. Her latest book is Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia.
Hadley Freeman is my guest, today on Lean Out. Transcript to come for paid subscribers.
Good Girls
What a great interview this is. I learned a lot.
Thank you
This fits with my experience and observations. I don't claim to understand the psychology but I do know that my gut has always been that the focus needs to be on fully human, what ever that means. What to me "fully human" means we all need to spend our life learning about we are. It is ok to not know, and not understand as it is the journey that counts. This also means not embracing "magic solutions" that imply that "if only you do this, take that pill, have these friends, believe this belief" all will be well and you will be the perfect human being.