Summary

The next chapter is titled “invaders.” Doyle begins by discussing how her eating and addiction disorders were not her real problems. Instead, she says, they were her means of coping with what her problems actually were. She identifies those as anxiety, which she defines as living too high, and depression, which she identifies as living too low. She describes both in terms that suggest they are invaders of her body and her life, taking her away from herself and her family and leaving only a shell behind. She then comments that she has “figured out many ways to outsmart the body snatchers” (275). She then offers “five pro tips for those who live too high and too low” (275).

The first tip is to take medications as prescribed, and the second is to keep taking them even when things start to improve. The third is...