"I was in hospital for the first two years of GCSE and I'm trying to think of what the equivalent of that is in America," she says. "The thing that sent me off being recovered was as random as the trigger that sent me into it, which was I was in hospital on my eighth admission." Her parents never took her out of school so she could keep a foot in the outside world. 'If I hadn't done that, I would probably either be dead or just still going in and out of hospital'