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Emma Brown had to be predicted, a One-star students before the anorexia took over her life

Emma Brown loss of appetite, fought for More Than half of her life, spends years in and out of the hospital, until she died of complications of the disease at 27. Her father, Simon, describes The Pain of fighting his oldest child - and why he works with those who handled your care.

At one point, Emma was to steal thousands of pounds from her father, The Money in your favorite restaurants - Zizzi 's, food and Yo! Sushi.

It was not about the life of a luxury lifestyle: drive your behavior, a weakening was the end of eating disorder, and finally, the cost Emma her life.

"I've probably single-handedly the development of restaurants in Cambridge-funded," said Simon brown, half-joking. "You would spend Maybe £200 per day from one to The Other . "

to be able to the financial burden of the Emma permanent expenditure, you will eventually have to make a decision few parents could imagine, with to: go to The Police about your child.

"you have a daughter who is a criminal, and you're The One that reported it - there is a feeling of betrayal, in that," said the 56-year-old Simon.

Simon Brown described his daughter as a "force of Nature " Emma was struggling to. She had a kind of anorexia known as binge-purge-and-Hunger was your body of much needed nutrients. She held the state for 14 years and had countless admissions to hospital, which developed towards the end of a weekly pattern.

"you would have to be approved by said ambulance to Addenbrooke's Hospital, on a Friday Night and you go to a Church, where would you pump potassium its full," Simon. "You would start to feel a bit better by Sunday, she would self-discharge on Monday, then the same - repeat, repeat, repeat. "

Emma had what her father called a "special" education. 1991, born in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, in the years she was able to name all of The Animals in the African Bush at the age of 18 months. Simon said she was always a "force of Nature " - to be Very articulate from an early age - and has a vivid image of Emma as a one-year-old happy birthday sing for him in your chair.

she excelled in school, when The Family moved to the UK, to The Point , she was sometimes even boring, because it is too easy for you. An avid skier, snowboarder and BMX biker, she was something of a "tomboy", which was, by the time you went to High School , teased for her "baby fat".

"That's when things really started to fall apart for you," said Simon. "For someone who was not picky and actually quite interested in food, and lived and traveled and experienced a range of foods, to suddenly see, they are Very restrictive with what you bells ate alarm.

"By August, she was diagnosed as anorexic. "

could call at a Very young age, Emma , all The Animals in the African Bush, What is anorexia? Skinny an eating disorder and severe mental illness is addiction. People with anorexia try to keep their weight as low as possible, you can be Very sick, to starve because they start.

the signs and symptoms of anorexia in women, periods stop, or, in the younger women and girls do not. Physical problems can occur, such as feeling lightheaded or dizzy, hair loss or dry skin.

factors, the likelihood of anorexia include a Family History of the disease or criticised for their eating habits, body shape or weight.

There are two sub-types - restricting and binge-purge, and there can be overlap between the two. In More Than half of the affected women moved from the restriction of the binge-purge.

source: NHS/Beat

Emma with her mother, Jay, On Safari in Africa, Simon believes Emma 's Diagnosis at 13 would have been the beginning of their recovery. Instead, it was a "descent into hell".

"During This Time , the restriction to the food came to The Point where they had nothing to eat and we had to give her water through a Calpol pipette. She was too weak to walk to the top, so you would be on the couch, or we wear them to bed. This active, sporty, Beautiful Child , descended to The Point where it was total Chaos. "

Emma was placed in a queue for a Bed In a unit for treatment, while Simon and her mother, Jay, take care of you in your house in Great Grandsen, Cambridgeshire. Simon said she begged for help, but was told that there were always patients in a rather desolate state, and as Emma .

In recent years, the government has the increase in community eating disorder services so that children and Young People must not care in the clinic. But back in 2004, Emma 's family has a house never received a visit from a specialist. Instead, Simon said that they have no work in view of the General Council - "which, because they are against something more complicated".

"It's almost indescribable how difficult that was. You have two other children who try to care, you have jobs that you try to keep up, and you have a child, Every Day getting closer and closer to dying in front of your Eyes . "

Simon Brown poses for a photo with his daughter Emma in the vicinity of the River Cam in Cambridge, It was not until "almost at The Point of death," in the December - four months after the Diagnosis , she was admitted to The Phoenix centre in Fulbourn.

The characters seemed positive at First - Emma recovered, her weight was discharged to a safe level, from the hospital and returned to the school. But without community care, Old Habits returned, and with them the "recurring Nightmare " - a cycle of illness, hospital admission, dismissal, and fall down.

Because she was constantly in and out of the school, the talented artist and runner, have had Olympic potential, could not live up to your A-star predictions. Emma was never good enough to sit an exam and left school with no qualifications, then struggled to keep a job, especially working in hotels or restaurants.

Emma is skinny and addiction has been further complicated by the Diagnosis of a personality disorder at 18, which led to an hospitalization in a psychiatric unit. Simon said it went somehow to explain, his daughter is stealing the propensity to take risks, to "show" and even the more violent actions, such as throwing knives in her family.

then an adult, Emma went through a time, to sleep rough before you are looking for a flat in Cambourne. In Between the many hospital were admissions - Some short, and the longest nearly two years in a unit in Surrey. When she was at home in the last years of her life she relied heavily on the two three-hour home visits in the week from the support of the workers.

Although their disease could have a significant adverse, even at the low points of your personality make a lasting impression on others.

"A woman remarked recently on Facebook what an incredible person Emma had taught her [in the unit], as you, as you would have helped her," said Simon. "She'd been Very dedicated in The Other patients, because that's how she was. They loved you. "

Emma on The Beach with her Younger Brother , Jordan, In early 2018, the emergency admissions to the hospital increased, culminating in June, when The Doctors said, Simon, his daughter would not make it through The Night .

"I spent the whole night with Emma , her hand held and to talk to her. At one point She Said to me, 'dad, I don't want to die'. I said to her: "but you will die, and the only way to stop dying to go on with the diet, The Doctors have told you for Some time, and even then it might not happen'. "

"This was on Friday Night into Saturday Morning - and she recovered. We are here for you on Monday Morning when The Doctors come back, all they are expected to be passed, over the weekend, absolutely stunned, she sat on a beer [your diet shakes],'hey, how was your weekend?'.

"But then you couldn't it do actually, and sustainably, that the recovery. "

Two months later, she was dead on her bathroom floor by her mother, at the age of 27. She had suffered respiratory failure and heart stoppage in connection with the lean. The impact on The Family was the width, but none of them has used it as an excuse to "fail in life", said Simon - quite the contrary.

Simon and Jay, who have split in 2013, in their careers. Emma 's sister Eden got a First -class degree in psychology ", inspired by the attempt to understand her sister, while her brother, Jordan, who has The Police evidence against Emma , and took refuge at a neighbour's house, as she was in her worst of all, now a talented surfers, sailors and climbers in his final year at the University.

Eden , left, and Jordan, both inspired by her sister, "Why would anyone do that? Who am I to find that the fault of the People who try to dedicate their working life to help People like Emma ?"

"This is what we have got to change. "

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Source of news: bbc.com