'She manipulated me, she starved me and she nearly killed me': Local blogger details experiences with Anorexia Nervosa

"In January, I was diagnosed with an eating disorder called Anorexia Nervosa. I was detrimentally underweight, had dangerously low blood pressure, critically low heart rate, no iron, protein, calcium, magnesium, or vitamin D, low bone density, I had no energy, I was pale, my hair was falling out in clumps, I constantly felt faint, I felt bloated after every mouthful, I stopped menstruating, I cried at every meal time, I was put on every kind of vitamin supplement, I never drank water, I lied, I cried, I collapsed…  I was taken out of school. I was bedridden. I cried even more, and I had never before hated my life that much. To this day, I am in a rehabilitation process on an out-patient basis."

This is an excerpt from a blog post titled 'Revealing who A is' by South African blogger and psychology honours graduate, Sarah-Kate Bergstedt.

Parent24 spoke to Bergstedt to find out more about this disorder and her experience with it.