Shattered Image: Eating Disorders and Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Brian Cuban is a an author whose best-selling book Shattered Image: My Triumph Over Body Dysmorphic Disorder chronicles his first-hand experiences living with eating disorders and body dysmorphia disorder (BDD). Cuban, an activist, television host, and lawyer by training, battled the illness for more than thirty years, becoming increasingly preoccupied with his negative self image and obsessed with fixing his perceived flaws at any cost. The book chronicles the bullying he experienced as a child and the behaviors that slowly developed and took him into the abyss of depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, and eating disorders, nearly causing him to take his own life at the age of forty-four. Eating Disorder and Body Image Awareness Week