In the high-pressure environs of Bethesda, the ‘plague’ of our generation is claiming plenty of victims
By Stacy Colino
Published: Bethesda Magazine – May-June 2013
In the 1990s, Jennifer Stein was a litigation associate at a large D.C. law firm, working long hours, traveling extensively and “experiencing tons of pressure to be at the top of my game,” she recalls. “Then I got a great opportunity to argue an appeal in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It was a big deal and very exciting—but very, very stressful.”
As she was preparing for oral arguments, Stein began feeling increasingly ill. She’d had Crohn’s disease—an autoimmune disorder and chronic inflammatory condition that affects the gastrointestinal tract—since age 17, and it consistently flared up when she was under stress. The pain in her digestive tract became overwhelming, and she lost so much weight over the course of months that colleagues wondered if she had an eating disorder.
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