yeah im almost positive starving myself destroyed my HPTA or something.
I won the battle with anorexia though, eventually.
i focused the obsessive nature of the condition onto building myself into something strong and healthy, bodybuilding literally saved me.
i was pretty overweight from the ages of 10 - 17, and i had just lost the love of my life (i thought she was at the time anyway.....) so i was i a bad place to say the least. i put myself on a 200cal/day diet for many months, some days just ate nothing......
went from ~220lbs + to ~120lbs (i still wansnt ripped though. i had lost most of my LBM instead) before my family intervened, my uncle in particular. he trained with weights and was big and strong, he gave me a complete set of weights, and a bench/squat assembly and got me on the right track. i was 18 at that time.
im currently ~200lbs @ ~13% bf . 23 years old now