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  When An Addict’s Confession Goes Bad

  Posted on April 16, 2014 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  When I was in my late teens, in a rare moment of vulnerability, I confided in an older Christian woman about my struggle with an eating disorder. My healthy, athletic body had turned rail-thin. Exhaustion and aching, atrophying muscles took over. Baggy clothes no longer hid my private efforts of controlling food, and I could […]

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  Broken Places, Part 2

  Posted on July 24, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  The darkness. The compulsion to die. I couldn’t shake the obsession… no matter what I did.   I prayed. I read the Bible. I ate. I ate more. I got high. And tried to get higher each time I used.   I got numb. I zoned out. For months, my prayers had been short and to the point: “HELP!” […]

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