yes, same here to all of this. i can't work and probably won't even manage to try going back to university until next year when i'll be 26 and i feel so embarrassed by it, but i'm still an adult and this shouldn't diminish the responsibility i'm having to take for myself in the rest of my life if not in work.

i also find it kind of hard when people talk about their EDs with a tone of "i can't believe i'm a grown adult with a very adult job (like the above person said, always blue collar) and a family and i STILL have an ED! i should be better than this!" i try not to take it personally but i guess it makes me feel a little ashamed. i know the message is "literally anyone can struggle" which is important, but it's like... what did you think of when you imagine EDs and who they happen to, then? losers in life like me? i guess it just think it's not an overall positive message if you're still talking your status in life up as something your ED happened in some kind of contradiction of, compared to others.