My Addictions Have Gotten Worse During Quarantine

Self-isolation overwhelms one’s ability to manage the worst things that lurk inside us

Regina Rodríguez-Martin
ZORA
Published in
5 min readApr 23, 2020

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I was 27 in 1994 when I realized I had a serious problem with food. My drug of choice was sugar, and that was the beginning of decades of trying to get off of it. I’ve given up processed sugar as many times as the most persistent…

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Regina Rodríguez-Martin
ZORA
Writer for

Mexican American. Chicagoan. Generation X. Relishes questions of human behavior. Nobody’s mother and nobody’s wife. Blog: https://www.reginachicana.com.