Maddy Tyers was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa as a teen. Now, she wants to open up an honest dialogue about body image – Women’s Agenda

I was just eight years old when I first began to develop an unhealthy relationship with food and toxic behaviours around eating, but it wasnt until I was sixteen (and in the tight grips of anorexia nervosa) that I was hospitalised and officially diagnosed with a debilitating eating disorder.
It took my family and I many years of heartache, countless hospital visits and endless therapy sessions to find the appropriate road to recovery. I often reflect on the many years we spent navigating the mental…

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