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A charity is calling on the government to do more to help people with eating disorders.
Beat says people are being left on waiting lists for treatment for too long.
It says this makes their conditions worse and in some cases, can prove fatal.
The government insists it wants mental health patients, including those with eating disorders, to be treated equally to patients with physical problems.
Hayley Martin first developed an eating disorder when she was 15.
A few years later, it got so bad that she had to drop out of university.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/24394494
Beat says people are being left on waiting lists for treatment for too long.
It says this makes their conditions worse and in some cases, can prove fatal.
The government insists it wants mental health patients, including those with eating disorders, to be treated equally to patients with physical problems.
Hayley Martin first developed an eating disorder when she was 15.
A few years later, it got so bad that she had to drop out of university.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/24394494