Stress Size: How My Hunger for Control Almost Killed Me

Go to school get good grades have a job with great pay and excellent benefits and everything will be fine--or so I thought. When I graduated from university and immediately secured a prestigious position as an assistant store manager at a retail store I thought I was on my way to the top of the corporate ladder. Instead I quickly hit rock bottom.Anxious stressed out and overworked I started controlling every aspect of my life from each calorie I consumed to every penny I spent. But as my dress size shrank my stress size grew.What I didnt realize was the more tightly I tried to hold onto control the more it spiraled away from me. It took waking up in an emergency room after a massive panic attack to realize how Id allowed my desire for control to consume me.This is the story of how my hunger for control almost killed me.