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Katya’s eating disorder first started when she was just 13 years old.

She went through the constant cycle of recovery and relapse. Over and over again. And she’s not the only one.

In Katya’s experience, hospitals often use a ‘one size fits all’ approach to treat eating disorders, and while this works for some, most people need personalised treatment.

While Katya has recovered from her eating disorder now, she still has heart problems that might stay with her for life.

If Katya had received better treatment sooner, she may not have relapsed, but instead, her body begun to shut down. She had dreams of becoming a doctor to help people, but she struggled to go to school for the full day because her knees hurt, and she was easily tired from not eating enough.

 

During her many stays in hospital, Katya made friends with Liv, another patient relapsing from her own eating disorder.

But Katya saw Liv’s spark slowly fade. “Each time I was readmitted to hospital, I would see Liv, and each time, she would be just a little bit less herself than when I had previously seen her,” says Katya, “The last time I saw her, she was just a shell of herself.”

The hospital system didn’t work for Liv. She needed a personalised treatment plan, like what Wandi Nerida offers. That’s our private residential treatment facility in Queensland.

The problem is that government funding doesn’t cover all the costs.

I was giving up on my dreams for an illness that was trying to kill me, because that’s its goal.” – Katya.


 

That’s why Katya is on a mission. Because the amount of people becoming revolving door patients’ needs to stop and we can do this by helping those in need access personalised treatment at Wandi Nerida.

What do you think? Will you join Katya’s mission?

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Katya is currently finishing her HSC exams and hopes to become a doctor one day to help others the way they helped her. Please wish her luck by writing a kind message below, and we’ll share it with her.

Wish Katya luck with her HSC exams!

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