My sister's friend was always very promising at everything she did. She loved animals and wanted to become a vet... which for her I think meant 3 As in Science, Physics and Biology just to get onto the course at university... then of course all the extra work and training. She was also really into horseriding, and she was really a very beautiful natural person, but got it into her head that she was fat (and she was REALLY thin to begin with)... each time we saw her she was thinner and thinner and you almost fell like you should say something, but know that that is potentially the worst thing that you can do. One day she'd fallen off the horse and been trampelled and had bruises all over her, which showed all the more for her build... I think that that almost showed her the state of her body and that she wasn't fat. She has looked a lot lot better the last few years that I have seen her, but I'm not sure if the problem goes that easily away.

Do you think there is ever a carthartic moment like this? What is it for different people?