I'm a child anorexic.
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- 2007
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Five girls living at Rhodes Farm, North London (a specialist centre for young girls with anorexia) describe what living with anorexia is like for them. The director of the centre, Dee Dawson, provides valuable insight into the condition and how the centre which is very strict in its insistance that girls eat three regular meals, supervised, each day. If they consistantly refuse to eat they are tube fed. The girls also have individual therapy and group therapy sessions, some of which we see. It becomes clear that although all of the girls were dangerously underweight when they entered Rhodes Farm some of them are recovering more quickly than others - 12-year-old Natasha gives fascinating insights into what's in her anorexic mind and she seems on the road to recovery by the end of the programme. Naomi is more entrenched and the staff's attempts to get her to her target weight are continually thwarted. In this respect in particular the programme does a good job of revealing how complex this disease can be.
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