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Name: | Lucy Mathison |
Age: | 18 |
Year of the Fix: | 2016 |
Location: | Monkseaton, Tyne and Wear |
Campaign: | To raise awareness of eating disorders |
My eating disorder started when I was eight years old.
For two months I ate nothing except bread. When my mum started asking questions about what I was doing I started eating normally again, but made myself sick to keep control of my weight.
Nobody noticed in the years that followed - I was really secretive about what I was doing and always wore very baggy clothes.
My eating disorder got worse when I was 15. I lost three stone in three months, my periods stopped for 10 months and my hair was falling out, I was always cold and I vomited blood a few times.
I became suicidal and attempted to take my own life twice last year. I was hospitalised and it was there that I started getting proper help for my eating disorder.
I made the film with Fixers because I want to fight stigma concerning eating disorders. I want to show that it isn't always about seeing a model on TV and wanting to look like them. It's a mental illness - a voice in your head that tells you that you need to lose weight.
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'Kate'
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