Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.
But it's a lie.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.

In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.