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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.
Tilly and Bella
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Lauren Taylor
Olivia G
Macauley Collinson
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Fixers
Meghann
Jo Quinn
'Kate'
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Jack H
Sam Barakat
Timothy Cranfield
Liam Thomas
Ben Simms
Shano
Jade Kingdom
Hannah Carter
Hannah Baker
Becky
Mason Latey
Sam Womack