I began to have struggles with anxiety and depression. I didn't really know this was what it was until it progressed into something much more unmanageable. I tried to talk about my feelings and was often questioned and shunned for them. Eventually, these feelings manifested into a pretty significant eating disorder.
No one recognized my eating disorder because being thin was 'in.' However, to put it into perspective, I was tracking 500 calories a day, working out one to two hours a day, and purging anything I put in my body.
Even during this intervention, I found myself justifying the behaviors. Keep in mind, they were only confronting me about the eating disorder, not the daily binge drinking I was also engaging in.
Surprisingly, my addictive patterns never impacted my career. I was living a dual life, providing therapy to others while hardly treading water personally.
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