I have always struggled to talk to my family about my mental health problems openly because I was scared I would not get the support that I need but obviously when you live in the same house, you cannot hide it from them. I live with an eating disorder, social anxiety disorder and depression, which my family find hard to take in. This has left me feeling like I am fighting this by myself and unfortunately, because I have very little support from loved ones, I am not getting any better.

I never speak about my eating disorder. The times I have ever opened up or wanted to open up, I have been pushed away, made to feel selfish or a joke. I’ve been stigmatized. People living with bulimia are not always underweight and in, some cases, are overweight. So to begin with, physically, you don’t always look ill.