Dean's Way Out: How Overcoming Eating Disorders Trauma and Depression Made Me Fabulous!

Dean Lin grew up in Queens New York. He is a Mental Health advocate creator/podcast host of Pretty Gaysic with Dean Lin and an on-camera personality. Dean has given a TEDx Talk appeared on BuzzFeed and directed several short films. You would never guess behind his outgoing comedic enthusiastic and dramatic personality that lights up every room--is the product of his trauma filled childhood eating disorders and depression. In his raw uncensored memoir Dean brings to life his experience growing up in an abusive traditional Asian home. After trying to hide from his sexuality for years Deans suppressed emotions ultimately led him to develop serious mental health consequences-anorexia bulimia and binge eating disorder. Intertwining comedy vulnerability and life lessons Dean gives light to how overcoming his traumas and struggles in life has made him the fabulous glittering and unapologetically version of himself. Deans Way Out is an extremely personal story about acknowledging past hardships family issues and mental health-so that you do not allow your past to define your future. It is also a story about being an eating disorder survivor recovery and being the best version of yourself despite the world around us that often convinces us we are not good enough. When in reality we are BORN fabulous.