‘Just the sight of food left me in fear’

STARING down at her dinner plate, tears flooding down her face, Abigail Prince felt desperate. Just looking at the food made the 16-year-old feel sick.

And the thought of eating it left her paralysed with fear.

“It was like I was being asked to walk the plank,” says Aba, as the now-19-year-old is known to her friends. “Some days even something as small as a chocolate button was like poison; I’d avoid it at all costs.

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