Today we’d like to introduce you to Alex Kandalaft.
Hi Alex, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory. In 2022, I began struggling with anorexia and bulimia, and my illness quickly spiraled out of control. By 2023, my life was completely consumed by my eating disorder. I became disconnected from my family, missed work frequently, and developed severe anxiety and depression. My substance use increased significantly, and I found myself in and out of the emergency room. My world became very small. My thoughts were entirely occupied by food. Scrolling through food videos on Instagram, living in constant fear of eating, obsessively weighing myself, mentally tracking what everyone around me was consuming, hoarding food, and baking compulsively. I was thinking about it nonstop, and it was exhausting.