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2. "Worked 12-hour days for a occupation that wasn't worthy it."
3. "Neglect my assemblage for years. Almost nary movement. Rather mediocre hygiene. Horrible food. And small to nary sleep."
4. "Succumbed to my nutrient addiction...again. After 2 years of utmost dieting and exercise, I mislaid a important magnitude of value and achieved the champion signifier of my life, feeling precise bully astir myself. Once I got down to an perfect weight, I didn't cognize what to bash with myself anymore. I didn't cognize however to support it. I started eating horribly again and americium now, conscionable implicit a twelvemonth later, astatine the heaviest constituent successful my full life. I binge devour to the extreme, and I'm beauteous powerless to halt it. It affects beauteous overmuch each facet of my beingness to immoderate degree, and it's a precise depressing feeling."
5. "Bulimia for 15 years since I was a teen. All due to the fact that my ma signed maine up for Weight Watchers arsenic a kid, since I was a small chubby. Never felt bladed enough. Ruined my teeth and digestive health. 10/10 bash not recommend."
7. "Decided to springiness moving successful a warehouse a shot. Quality of beingness went from 90% to beneath 50%."
8. "Isolated myself for years. I’m not definite it could truly person been different with the issues I had, but it annihilated my societal circle."
10. "Vaped. Been 9 months without it, and inactive cough and get winded easily. Used to sing arsenic good and I can't deed notes for crap these days."
11. "I was jumping connected our kids' trampoline and I wounded my back, and I’ve suffered sciatica symptom each these years since. My beingness would beryllium truthful overmuch amended if I had not thought jumping connected a trampoline would beryllium bully exercise."
12. "Spent years to impressment the miss I like, I should person fixed that attraction to my ain aforesaid instead, improving my life."
13. "Holding retired for a absorption presumption alternatively of moving on. He won't retire. The antheral is mid-70s."
16. "Moved to a caller state (state) reasoning I needed a caller start, but successful world I was conscionable moving from my problems!"
17. "Running excessively overmuch successful atrocious shoes. Now I person arthritis successful my ft and I can't tally anymore."
20. "Caring for others who bash not springiness a damn astir maine successful return. Wasted acold excessively galore sleepless nights connected radical who wouldn't springiness a flying monkey if I was successful a concern similar theirs."
21. "The incorrect spouse volition wreck your life. I've been there, done that."
22. "I went stone climbing 1 time without a helmet on. The archetypal clip I didn’t person it connected was connected the time it was needed. A Severe TBI is an wounded I privation upon nary man, woman, oregon child."
24. "Going to situation astatine 19 for selling weed. In the end, it worked out. I've since graduated from assemblage and person a bully engineering occupation and a large life. It was a unsmooth spot successful my beingness for sure. Freezing, stuck successful a situation compartment successful Joliet for 77 days, I went weeks without showers oregon seeing sunlight. Then, I was shipped disconnected to footwear campy for 4.5 months to beryllium further denigrated. In the end, it caused maine to turn up and prioritize what I privation successful life. Worked and paid my mode done a 2-year assemblage college, followed by a MIS grade astatine a 4-year University. Life hasn't been perfect, but I ever person position connected a 'bad day' successful that I've had it overmuch worse."
25. "Putting effort into radical who didn't bash the aforesaid for me. Then getting anxiousness implicit it."
26. "Stayed successful my assemblage large adjacent aft I knew it wasn't for me. I wasted a batch of clip that I tin ne'er get back."
27. "Skipped the mammograms origin I had an 'it’ll ne'er hap to me' cognition erstwhile I was younger. Now I’m lying connected a furniture astatine a bosom halfway waiting to get 5 biopsies for suspicious spots."
28. "Being knowing erstwhile idiosyncratic treats/talks/screams astatine you similar shit. Don't basal for it."
31. "I near Walmart aft 15 years to beryllium a store manager astatine Starbucks —worst mistake of my life. I retrieve nights erstwhile I was there, 10 aft a person called off, to person an opener telephone out, and knowing I'd person to aftermath up successful 4 hours and enactment different shift, hoping the aforesaid happening wouldn't hap again. It was conscionable awful, and the stories I'd perceive from interviewing radical made maine recognize however atrocious accelerated nutrient was. People from different companies wanted to enactment astatine Starbucks origin those places were adjacent worse."
32. "Social media. It has earnestly messed with my attraction span. And I can’t adjacent retrieve however to bask escaped clip without checking it each 5 minutes."
33. "Married young, astatine 18, present 61 divorced, privation I had planned my beingness amended for my aboriginal archetypal earlier I got married, I conscionable didn't privation to beryllium alone."
The National Eating Disorders Association helpline is 1-800-931-2237; for 24/7 situation support, substance “NEDA” to 741741.
The National Alliance connected Mental Illness helpline is 1-800-950-6264 (NAMI) and provides accusation and referral services; GoodTherapy.org is an relation of intelligence wellness professionals from much than 25 countries who enactment efforts to trim harm successful therapy.
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