My Anxiety is Buying A Lot of Drawer Organizers

Melissa Boles
3 min readNov 3, 2020
Photo by Edgar Chaparro on Unsplash

My parents divorced when I was 10, which was when my anxiety and depression first really appeared. Unable to control what was happening to my family, I controlled what I consumed. I progressed rapidly into a binge-eating disorder that stuck around until I finally found the right therapist, and even then it just began to manifest in different ways. (I also had undiagnosed ADHD, but that’s a story for a…

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Melissa Boles

she/her. writer. storyteller. impatient optimist. greater fool. fat queer. melissaboles.com. @melloftheball.