Ken

Yeah, hi Ciarán.

Yeah, I suppose the best way to describe the eating disorder, anorexia in this case, it's a tease.

It was really stored in huge parts of our daughter Rebecca's life, our other daughter Evan's life, and mine and Moira's as well.

You know, there was a huge sense of loss and grief, a huge sense of guilt to not be able to keep ourselves and our family safe and our daughter safe.

And it has just taken a huge toll on us, you know.

And I suppose without the support of both Cared Ireland and Paula Crotty's group and Body Wise and the fabulous Harriet Parsons,

who have really been absolute lifesavers.

I don't know where we would be as a family.

You know, that peer support that we got from them was unbelievable.

But the sense of loss and the sense of guilt and the fear is unbelievable, and it's really difficult to describe.

Yeah, I guess under the sense of loss and grief, I suppose just one thing that springs to mind to illustrate that, it's really a simple thing.

Rebecca and myself went to a funeral, a friend's granny, you know, really according to Mike's, and it was after the funeral had finished.

We stood outside the church having a chat.

It was, you know, standard practice.

And the funeral cartel started to walk out the avenue from the church.

And Rebecca's friends were there.

Her friend who'd grown up had died, her siblings.

And they walked out with their boyfriends, their girlfriends, you know.

And that had been stolen from Rebecca, you know.

Those relationships, be it relationships of a boyfriend-girlfriend, but also her own friends that she was at school with.