Pandora in the Press
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I thought running 20 miles a day made me healthy – then I broke both my legs
The consultant came into the hospital room and looked at me seriously. Then he said: ‘I’m afraid you have a stress fracture in your left tibia.’
Immediately, I burst into tears.
I have suffered from broken bones in my legs ever since I was a teenager, all brought on through a combination of over-exercising, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and anorexia.
How magic mushrooms helped my crushing OCD
As Morris matter-of-factly recounts in the podcast, she has, over the years, tried pretty much everything, including neurolinguistic programming, cognitive behavioural therapy and various combinations of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs. She spent seven months in rehab in South Africa and even briefly considered electroconvulsive therapy. But nothing really worked, and if it did, not long term, since she would always slip back into her old ways.
I spent over £100,000 on therapy... but it was taking magic mushrooms that helped me conquer my OCD
On the surface, Pandora Morris, 35, has everything. She's pretty, blonde, well-connected and has a posh London address – the type of woman you might see on the pages of society magazine Tatler.
But there is a sadness about her cornflower blue eyes which reflect a less golden story. Pandora, a lawyer by profession and scion of a large London banking dynasty, has spent decades battling obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which developed into a severe exercise addiction and eating disorder in her early teens.
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OCD nearly ended my life. It metastasises, like a cancer
When I was growing up, I absorbed the message that you should push yourself physically every day. At school, I became one of the fastest in my class. But with my addictive personality, running took over my life. My extreme exercise stagnated my puberty. I had no period, no breasts and very low body fat. I developed bradycardia, which is when your heart rate starts to get very slow because you're conserving your energy, and your body starts shutting down various systems. My struggle with my mental health caused this and other physical consequences like multiple stress fractures, and there’s so much I've missed out on because of it.
Hurt to Healing: A Podcast by Pandora Morris
In the podcast’s first episode, Pandora is interviewed by Anneka Rice about her experience of living with OCD since childhood. Pandora explores her early childhood and the impact it may have had on her mental health, her school life and early manifestations of OCD and anorexia. She also discusses how she struggled in her 20s and battled her illnesses alongside being a lawyer, and the help she received over these difficult years. In later episodes, Pandora speaks to Professor David Veale about OCD and Dr Amita Jassi about BDD.
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