After spending her childhood fighting an eating disorder, the new Labor upper house MP is wanting to change the dialogue on community mental health
Emily Suvaal vividly remembers the smell of the adult psychiatric unit to she was admitted at age 16 for treatment of anorexia.
Suvaal was admitted to hospitals across Sydney for treatment for anorexia about 10 times between the ages of 14 and 16, after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a child. Her school teacher mother and pianist father tried to get her help as they watched her “basically starve to death”.
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