“Bulimia almost ruined me. Rehab taught me that self-sabotage was at the root of my problem”

"I went to rehab for bulimia, this is what I learnt"

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“Bulimia almost ruined me. Rehab taught me that self-sabotage was at the root of my problem”

By Desiree Akhavan

8 months ago

8 min read

For years, writer Desiree Akhavan struggled silently with an eating disorder. But it wasn’t until things became too much and she entered a rehab centre that she was forced to reckon with her own self-sabotage and the damage she’d done to herself along the way.  


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