During his junior year at Wesley College in Delaware, Patrick Bergstrom was fighting for playing time on the college’s lacrosse team. He desperately wanted to excel at the sport he loved, so he began eating less and working out more.
“I think people probably couldn’t see the effects,” Bergstrom, now 28, told HuffPost, explaining that at the time, his behavior could best be defined as disordered eating. “I was in great shape and I was still able to play.”
But after graduating, Bergstrom all but gave up food. Soon, he was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and told that if he did not get help, he would be dead within a year.
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