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‘My 11-year-old daughter lost a dangerous amount of weight before I realised it was anorexia’


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by IMAGE
03rd Mar 2021

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With Eating Disorders Awareness Week running March 1-7, one Dublin mum shares her story about her adolescent daughter’s battle with anorexia.

It’s almost one year since the day it was announced that schools would close to control the spread of Covid-19. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Yet, here we are, a little wiser and more experienced in the art of working and schooling from home. It’s no secret that people the length and breadth of Ireland, and the world, have been hugely affected both psychologically and physically by this pandemic, so it won’t come as any...

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