"Surviving Exercise Addiction: My Journey to Recovery"

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Source: The Guardian
"Surviving Exercise Addiction: My Journey to Recovery"
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The author shares their journey of struggling with exercise addiction, which began as a pursuit of fitness but turned into a relentless obsession with pushing their physical limits. Despite exhibiting symptoms of exercise dependence, they found little understanding or support within addiction medicine and therapy. Only when the consequences became intolerable did they begin to address their overtraining, leading to a more balanced approach to exercise.

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