Erin, 39 years old, wears her fitness clothes wherever she goes. One may account her activewear attire to the sunny and scorching weather of San Diego, California. But Erin, unlike most women who are acclimated to wearing activewear for no reason at all, actually works out—a lot. Now, she seeks help for it.
Erin, who’s going to be featured on an episode in the afternoon medical talk show, The Doctors, said that her current life had been structured around her addiction to exercising. Despite working out for eight hours a day, every day of the week, Erin claimed that her energy was still the same with before she even started working out.
Erin said in the episode teaser of The Doctors, “I exercise eight hours a day. I never get tired, I don’t get sore.”
Although Erin had been working out a lot and body looked or seemed fit, she confessed that she doesn’t feel content or good, and that she’s starting to believe that her exercising became an addiction.
Erin said, “I’ll cancel plans, I’ll cancel appointments. It’s been controlling my life. I just can’t stop. It’s not giving me the rush that I used to feel just doing three to four hours. Around 5 o’clock is when I work out, and then I go to work, and then I work out for another two hours.”
Erin also shared in the clip that her exercising had become her form of coping with a trauma she had experienced for four years in the past.
Erin shared to the show, “Eight months ago, I got a message from a girl. It triggered a memory that I had suppressed for 30 years. Basically, from that time on I’ve been adding on exercise so that I can just forget about that whole nightmare of those four years of life.”
Dr. Travis Stork, one of the hosts of the TV afternoon show, said, “Before we get into where we need to go from here, we have to acknowledge where we are right now. I’m so happy you realize that you need to change, because when I saw those blood pressure readings, there are things in medicine we call hypertensive urgency, and those blood pressure numbers [are] quite alarming.”
Dr. Jorge Rodriguez, a gastroenterologist who’s currently working with aiding Erin, said that he, too, was very concern because of the results. He said, “In the six years that I’ve done the show with you, Erin is the most ill person, the sickest person that we’ve had on the show in my opinion.”
