I Was Addicted To Meth For 7 Years And No One Had Any Idea

The author at 23. "This is before I took fen-phen or meth," she says.

Ever since I was a little girl, I never felt enough. Not pretty enough. Not smart enough. Not thin enough. 

When I was 24, I began taking a diet drug combination called fen-phen. It not only suppressed my appetite, but it gave me energy and focus. I lost 10 pounds in just a month. A year later, it was ruled unsafe and taken off the market.

I gained the weight back. I became preoccupied with losing it again.