Dear Anita,

Everyone keeps telling me that time will heal everything. I suppose I just feel a bit sick of waiting, it’s been a very long year and there’s been a lot of very upsetting moments. I’m fed up of waiting for things to get better again, does that sound horrible?

I’m trying to make myself eat after yesterday’s experience. Family and friends have commented on my weight loss a lot this week. I never weigh myself, but I’m not very tall and I’ve always been slim. However I notice that my clothes are feeling looser.

Summer 2015 I was in abroad with my friends when there was an accident whereby lots of young people my age died. It really scared me and my body went into shock, as a delayed response all of my hair fell out a few months later. I lost all the hair on my head within 3 weeks, then in the weeks that followed that I lost my eyebrows, eyelashes, etc. Only in the last 4 months has my hair started to grow back – a very slow process! I dont have a full head of hair yet but I’m doing a treatment for it. My eyelashes are nearly all back, and it’s beginning to re-grow everywhere else.

I have a great relationship with them. My Mum knew about my ex, she’s been very concerned over the last two weeks. She tries her best to say the right things when I’m down or upset, but unfortunately she tends to make things worse! She doesn’t intend to but she’s also a worrier and I suppose she blurts out things when I’m upset that don’t help!

Thanks Anita.

Emma x