My little brother emailed me recently about someone I just had to meet. Enter registered nurse and coach Caitlin Forrest, whose Dream Big story, including fighting through posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, is featured below. Dr. Jeffery Schaefer was right: she is an inspiration. Thanks, Caitlin, for sharing your story of…Read More
I’m never going to get better. I’m the only person in the world who won’t recover. I said this about my eating disorder, and, later, I said the very same thing about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In my experience, part of having a mental illness, by definition, means that, at…Read More
“Thanks for telling me I have cancer,” Amy texted me several days ago. We had connected for over a month about the very real truth that she needed to go to treatment. She didn’t have cancer though. Amy needed help for an eating disorder, yet, like many, including myself for…Read More
Who am I without Ed? This is a question that I used to ask myself a lot. Apparently, this is a question that many of us in recovery from eating disorders as well as other mental illnesses, like PTSD, end up wondering about. Our illness can essentially hijack so much…Read More
My therapist prescribed me to drink more alcohol. I had described symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), yet once again, the diagnosis was completely missed. Even worse, this uniformed therapist suggested that I drink wine “medicinally,” beginning in the morning, to help cope with what he said was high anxiety.…Read More