Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder.
One in every 100 with anorexia who have sought treatment die each year, and up to 20 per cent over a 20 year period will die as a result of complications of the illness and suicide.
Yet this life-threatening illness is still so frequently trivialised.
Anorexia is often dismissed as faddy eating gone too far or a lifestyle choice of the young and privileged.
Some people believe anorexics are just attention seeking, or that they are slimming to look like celebrities.
Others just blame the parents.
None of which accurately describes the serious and complex mental illness anorexia actually is.
UK eating disorder charity Beat said: ‘There is… Read the full story