SEEING her daughter dragged kicking and screaming from the family home, Donna feared she’d lost 13-year-old Maddie* forever.
The schoolgirl was fighting a losing battle with anorexia and, by the time she was sectioned in July 2022, she was surviving on two sips of water a day. Painfully thin, Maddie refused even to shower, fearing she’d inhale calories.
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“At the hospital, she had to be tube-fed and was confined to a wheelchair,” says Donna, 41, who lives in Yorkshire.
“She was given a special mattress as her bones were protruding through her skin, causing sores. Truthfully, I thought she’d die…