For so long as she will bear in mind, the Guardian’s Jenny Stevens has had a troublesome relationship with meals and a sense of being unwell relaxed together with her physique. As she moved by her teenagers into her 20s, these emotions intensified till she discovered herself skipping an increasing number of meals whereas within the grip of anorexia.
She tells Rachel Humphreys that having recognised the issue herself, it was removed from simple to get the remedy she wanted. Confronted with an obstructive GP, she was unable to get the referral she required for specialist care. Ultimately she was referred to the consuming dysfunction unit on the Maudsley hospital, south London, the place she was capable of start the gradual highway to restoration.