What Disease Does Daniel Johns Have?

In 2002, Daniel Johns had reactive arthritis for ten months now, forcing the band to cancel any and all touring indefinitely, and that got Johns and the band quite depressed.

Johns’ doctors had no clue how long he’ll be affected by this disease.

In the late 90s, Johns battled with anorexia nervosa.

Daniel Johns is currently battling with anxiety disorders, depression and anorexia.

Frustrated by the impositions his stardom was placing on his family, and feeling as though his life was out of his control, Johns was slipping into another period of depression, which mani- fested itself in his sunken features and rake-thin physique. It was almost as if he was trying to physically disappear.

Johns had moved out of his family home and into a two-bedroom house near Newcastle’s Merewether Beach and became increasingly isolated.

Although his parents had convinced him to see a psychotherapist, he’d ended the sessions after two months and by now was also now experiencing panic attacks and paranoia. Then he stopped eating.

“Johns figured that the only part of his life he could take charge of was his food intake. It was his way of controlling ‘the chaos I was feeling inside’.

He started to test himself, trying to discover how little he could eat and still get by. Johns saw it as a bizarre personal challenge.

Eventually, he was down to nothing more than a few pieces of fruit a day, maybe some soup; whatever it took to stop him from blacking out.