Life with an eating disorder and the struggle to get help | Four Corners

Sara has anorexia. Sam secretly binge eats. More than one million people in Australia have an eating disorder and cases are exploding. Patients are getting younger. People are dying. This documentary explores what it feels like to live with an eating disorder and meets the families desperate for their loved ones to get help. It exposes a cruel and torturing illness that's deeply misunderstood - and a health system in crisis.

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