CAST OUT YOUR DEMONS — CONFESS YOUR SINS! Seven Ways I Used To Be A Toxic Person — And How I Changed My Behavior:

This is not a fun thing to admit, but I used to be a toxic person. In fact, my level of toxicity hurt everyone in my life and drove many people away. I was a master at being selfish and making everything about me — all the time. It made a particularly tough period of my life even harder to deal with, too. I was in the deepest, most depressive phase of binge eating disorder (BED), and I was unhappy with the overall direction my life had taken. But I eventually got the help I needed, and now I’m able to look back and see the repercussions of my toxic behavior without experiencing overwhelming guilt.

Even though this all happened a long time ago, it’s not easy for me to put this information out there.

To place the chronology of that last sentence into perspective, according to her LinkedIn profile, the author served as an intern at the Carter Center in 2010, received her B.A. from Emory in 2011, and her Masters in Theological Studies, Religion and the Social Sciences from Harvard in 2013. Perhaps she simply confused leftism with more traditional religion; it’s been a common mistake for decades. And as Kevin Williamson quips on Twitter, “What this story needs is a big picture of me and a lead about how I got over being self-centered.”