{"id":410648,"date":"2025-09-09T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410648\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:31:37","slug":"seaford-man-says-cancer-treatment-weight-gain-led-to-dark-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410648\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaford man says cancer treatment weight gain led to &#8216;dark place&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every day I found myself looking at a different person in the mirror and it got to the point where I couldn&#8217;t look at myself at all,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to leave the house much, and I&#8217;d freak out if anyone tried to take a picture of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that, after he developed an eating disorder, medical staff noticed he was losing weight too quickly and a Teenage Cancer Trust nurse referred him for psychological help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was depressed and in a very dark place, it was a dangerous time, but I&#8217;m OK now,&#8221; Mr Solley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Every day I found myself looking at a different person in the mirror and it got to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-410648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115174826619387061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}