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How bodybuilding saved me from depression

Telegraph
October 10, 2019
How bodybuilding saved me from depression

Depression W hen Andrea Corbett, 43, was in the grips of depression in 2015, she would wear an Im Fine mask. This, she explains, was her way of hiding her illness from her friends and family. But behind closed doors, she was far from fine. Not only was she falling behind with her workload as head of Business and Computing in an inner city of London secondary school, she was also drinking heavily and becoming dependent on alcohol. My glass of wine turned into a bottle of wine," she recalls. "And then, Let me just walk to the corner shop to go and get another one'. She developed unhealthy eating habits, too. I was bingeing a lot on family packs of everything and there wasnt a family in the home...