Georgia Willson Pemberton aged 26 dies as a result of taking Dulcolax laxatives to help achieve her anorexic longings to be thin and empty.
I am sad and frustrated about another needless loss of life. Who was egging her on; with whom was she competing, who was telling her that the only way to live was to be a princess on a pedestal?
Laxative abuse is a horrible way to die, these are dangerous - dangerous substances which ruin the liver and the gut, sometimes permanently. Deluded users think that they help weight loss. But they don't. They change metabolism and make people gain weight easily, adding to their problems. It's only the starving which goes alongside laxative abuse which keeps weight down.
Condolences to her parents and family.
I'm not surprised that she was a Head Girl. She probably left school "magna cum laude" (with great praise); the kind of girl who would appear to have it all.
What strikes me about this death is that, here she was in 2013 with all the king's horses and all the king's men trying to put her back together again. Nothing that money can't buy. But they couldn't beat the demon anorexia - not with all the money and all the new wonderful state-of-the-art eating disorder services out there.
This was not some poor family trying to get noticed by the national health services. This was a girl whose parents could buy the best there is.
So never mind all the chatter about "there isnt enough help for people with eating disorders". The sad thing is that we could pour millions down into the black hole that is anorexia. Even the best is not good enough to dent this serious mental illness.
But sometimes, someone can make a difference. What we can't always do is "bottle it".
I found this news very sad, but also what you've written here is awfully true too; we can put as much money and time as we like into aiding recovery but ultimately, it may not change a thing if the demon's voice has more power.
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