Hot tears sear your eyes, and you try desperately to swallow the knot that’s been stuck in your throat for what feels like forever. You feel sick to your stomach. Your cheeks are shiny, with the sheen...

Before going to Boston for college, I cannot remember a single day when I checked the temperature. I remember calling up my parents, explaining how difficult it was to acclimate to Farenheit instead of...

In high school, I had a raging moral superiority complex. I had managed to conflate partying, hooking up and drinking/smoking with being unsuccessful. I truly believed that because I didn’t engage...

On April 28, I received a text from my mom at 3:04 am. She told me that instead of going back home to India as planned, I would be spending the summer with two of my friends from high school in an Airbnb...

Content warning: body dysmorphia, eating disorders Standing on the scale in my parents’ bedroom right after my first semester in college, I felt a sinking feeling in my stomach. I had gained, in the...