In a few weeks time I am expected to have a sports ‘fun day’ at work, with a team junk food lunch in the middle of it. At the moment, I get breathless and get chest pains very easily and will not honestly be able to partake in field sports, let alone sit around a table and eat in front of others.

It’s a struggle not to pass out at work as it is. Do you think, even though work know NOTHING about my ED, that I should ask to work in the office and miss the day, or suck it up, even though the whole thing makes me incredibly anxious? I wouldn’t know how to answer the ‘why can’t you take part’ question from my boss if I did ask to be excused.

Sorry, this sounds like such a trivial thing, it just feels me with fear.