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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Alahna Kindred

'My seven-year eating disorder began after GP said I wasn't underweight enough for help'

A teenager whose anorexia was not taken seriously because she wasn't underweight enough has called for better approaches to treating eating disorders.

Susie Ward was 11 years old the first time her mum took her to the GP because she wasn't eating.

She claims they said she was healthy and wasn't underweight enough, sparking a seven-year battle and causing her to lose her "final years of childhood".

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