Leah Falland was on her way to the Olympics, and then came the fall and the shock

“It took me a couple of years to finally put my hands up in the air and say, ‘There’s something wrong, I don’t know what to do, and I need some more help,’ ” Falland wrote in a 2019 blog post. “And honestly, guys, for a fiercely independent and competitive human, that admission felt like swallowing acid.”