The eating disorders charity Beat has said that in the UK alone there are around 1.25 million people suffering with an eating disorder. Eating disorders are treatable, and people can and do make full and sustained recoveries. The more awareness has been raised about them the more people are seeking treatment.

But in AA’s case things took a serious turn. She’d go in to a unit, be nursed back to a target level and released only to struggle on the outside and end up right back where she started. This pattern continued with her in and out of the units constantly. In the space of 36 months she would be in the unit for 31 of them. Something had to give.