Publisher's Synopsis
Kevin Olmsted's road to hell started when his 14 year old daughter and best friend, M, dropped 30 pounds in 60 days and disappeared from their family's reality. Anorexia wasn't something he knew anything about, and he had no one to turn to for help, guidance or support. He and his wife went from hospital visits to residential care facilities to outpatient programs and back to the hospital. Kevin then turned his life inside out, he quit working and left his 23 year wine career to stay home full time and teach his daughter to eat again. Over the time he was hunkered down in treatment for M, he faced every battle and terror that anorexia can throw at a child's family. Kevin repeatedly picked himself up off the matt, regrouped his courage, and kept coming back to help and love the teenage girl who desperately needed him. Scared Dad Feeding is part cathartic memoir of a horrific life with a mental disorder, part call to arms for other parents in his community to open their eyes and ears to the reality of eating disorders, and part field guide for how parents can find a path through the darkness of hell that is anorexia. Scared Dad Feeding is by no means a definitive work on anorexia, nor does it find a cure. But it does beg parents to have the courage to take on the fight of their life, because eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental disorder ever diagnosed.
