Cracking open a fresh bottle of Ribena, I just couldn’t get enough of the fruity drink.
‘Tash, you’ve already had three of those today,’ my friend Jen said as we stopped at the corner shop.
For weeks on end, at just 14, I really did have a sweet craving for that beverage in particular.
A month before that I’d been addicted to having the same dinner on repeat and after the Ribena addiction, I swiftly moved on to my next craving.
‘What’s got into you?’ my mum Lorraine, now 73, asked.
‘It’s just who I am, Mum,’ I insisted – I was just a teen with an obsessive personality.
Albeit a little strange, if I had something that I really wanted to do in my thoughts, I went out of my way to do it.
A trait that followed me into adulthood, too.
At first thinking it was a quirk that helped me, I quickly realised that my behaviour was quite disruptive.
Not only was I focused, but I had intense moods and my emotions were uncontrollable.
