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Teen’s troubling diary entries emerge after sudden death

A teen who collapsed in her university dorm room after a long battle with anorexia wrote troubling diary entries before her death, an inquest has heard.

Averil Hart died in December 2012 in her first semester of her university studies after being discharged from the eating disorder unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, in the UK.

Ms Hart, who was diagnosed with an eating disorder in 2008, was discharged from the hospital on August 2, 2012, despite her not hitting her goal weight of 50kg.

Undated family handout photo of Averil Hart. The teenage girl with anorexia wrote in her diary about how she lost weight during her first term of university after being discharged from hospital, an inquest into her death has heard.. Issue date: Monday September 28, 2020. Hart, 19, was found collapsed in her room at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich. She was admitted to hospital in Norwich on December 7 2012 and was transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge on December 11. She died on December 15 2012. See PA story INQUEST Averil. Photo credit should read: Family handout/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Averil Hart's diary entries before her death were heard at an inquest. Source: AAP/PA

The BBC reports the 19-year-old collapsed in her dorm room at the University of East Anglia in Norwich just four months later, and was taken to hospital in Norwich before being transferred to Addenbrooke’s Hospital where she died on December 15, 2012.

According to the BBC, after being discharged from the hospital in August she wrote in her diary about her weight and how she would falsify it during weigh-ins and restrict what she was eating.

Then again in October she said she weighed just 42kg.

Just a month before her death, she wrote about the impacts of her eating disorder.

“I can’t believe I’m still going, what I’m even running on any more,” the BBC reports, according to the inquest.

“I just look thin and in pain. It makes me so sad.”

Averil Hart died in 2012 after receiving treatment for an eating disorder. Source: Facebook
Averil Hart died in 2012 after receiving treatment for an eating disorder. Source: Facebook

During the inquest, her father said she was in the hospital for 10 months from 2011 to 2012, and was given a meal plan and underwent daily weight checks.

According to The Mirror, Ms Hart’s father Nic told coroner Sean Horstead he expected a “different but equally” robust monitoring and treatment regime after she was discharged from hospital.

The publication reports Ms Hart’s is one of five inquests linked to deaths of women with eating disorders who were being looked after by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

The inquest into Ms Hart’s death is expected to last for four weeks.

Readers seeking support for an eating disorder can contact the Butterfly Foundation on 1800 334 673, Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.

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