St Albans personal trainer, 25, on her journey from atypical anorexia to eating disorder education At the time I was struggling, but I didn t really know. That was my experience
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Trinity Handley set-up her PT website and aims to help people with their confidence while adding exercise into their lifestyle (Image: Trinity Handley)
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Trinity describes her NHS treatment as varied in terms of success. She was first referred to CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) in Radlett in 2012 and was offered treatment: I didn’t take it up as my parents were in denial about the problem. A GP told me a number of times that I was attention-seeking and once he told me that if I didn’t want to faint, I’d take glucose tablets.
Despite her behaviour being driven by a psychiatric illness that was completely out of control she said she was persuaded by the adults around her that she was a nuisance who just needed to get over it .