so in that sense, when harry met sally, you have a trigger warning on it. of effects anorexia had on your body? it was horrific. and this is why, partly why i wanted to write the book, to tell girls that anorexia is not about sort of wasting away palely in some kind of emily bronte way. for me, it gave me osteoporosis. almost all my hair fell out, and it hasn't grown back properly since. for girls in the hospital who i was with who were throwing up, you know, their teeth rotted out. other girls were using laxatives and that had a horrific effect on the insides of their bodies. you know, anorexia makes you behave in really quite disgusting ways. and there were ways that we all behaved in hospital to get out of eating that were disgusting. you know, girls were hiding bags of vomit under their bed. they were spitting food up their sleeves, smearing butter under the table. it's not some kind of romantic disease. it's a horrible disease. and it will destroy you. what kind of treatment did you receive in the 19905? the what kind of treatment did you receive in the