My DD aged 17 has just been diagnosed this week as having annorexia, i feel so helpless, she is not accepting anything that she is being told, she had an appointment with a doctor and phsyciatrist today and she has basically not come home last night and not turned up today for her appointment , when i called her she said she's not going cos she's tired and wanted me to call and say she was sick, i told her i could not do this as it was important that she attends, so she hung up, the DR called me and told me she was not answering her phone to them, My DD is only 9 stone and she's 5'11 tall, i have asked me GP endlessly if her being so skinny was ok and kept getting told that shes just very tall and small boned as she has mild osteoporosis due to juvenille rhumatoid arthritis, she has been suffering from depression for a while,and in the last few months things have gotten really quite bad, as she has gone from having good days where she is quite happy to mostly terrible days where she is abusive tearful and has even been self harming, cutting her arms, she has threatened to kill her self three times , it came to a head last week when i got a call at work from my younger DD worrying that she was hurting herself as she had locked herself in her room and was saying she was going to be dead soon, i had already taken her to my GP re, the self harming and threats so they were aware of the situation, i called them on my way back home to her and they told me i needed to call an ambulance and have her admitted to hospital,when i got in i had to force her door open and she had tied a noose from a beam in her ceiling, and was intending to hang herself, i thought i was going to pass out when i saw the state she was in, so i dialled 999, unfortunately she refused to go so the police had to be called in and she was taken by them under a section 4, i was heartbroken, and all the way there in the ambulance she swore at me and told me i had lost a daughter, she also managed to escape from the A&E dept and had to be taken off a bus and brought back by the police, she went through so much trauma that day and by the end of it just broke down and accepted that she had problems and needed help, i don't know what to do as her mum to help her, i love her so much and it is killing me seeing her so ill and unhappy, but she just doesnot seem to want to help herself,my beautiful DD left school at 16 with 12 a-c GCSE's and was at college studying medical sciences in the hope of being a doctor, then she was robbed by a gang of about 9 boys and girls in our area, this started the downward spiral, and after nearly a year of court cases etc, (of which the two main culprits got a £30 fine) we have a great judicial system(NOT!!), and DS being threatened and bullied at college because she had pressed charges, she dropped out and hasn;t really done anything since, the little b#st#rds got off so lightly as they were under 16, i know i am babbling now and this is so long, but i have so much to say and no one to say it to..i have never known anyone with annorexia, so i am hoping that theres a mum on here who might understand how i feel right now