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The pandemic has affected millions with other illnesses – here's how it affected a health professor's struggle with bulimia

  • Written by Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, Associate Professor of Agriculture and Human Sciences, North Carolina State University
The pandemic has affected millions with other illnesses – here's how it affected a health professor's struggle with bulimiaA self-portrait of the author, who has found solace in her garden.Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, CC BY-SA

Control. What does it mean to lose control? For someone who has spent nearly half their life battling an eating disorder, losing control is about an extremely heightened awareness of numbers. Numbers I believe I can control.

Because I have an acute...

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