There was very little specialist NHS help available to Abbie to help with the emotional trauma
A teenage girl has demanded more support for young people with bowel disease after her illness left her suicidal.
Abbie Gray, 18, sank into depression after being diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, which is wrongly viewed as an older person’s disease.It was only thanks to Crohn’s and colitis charity, the Catherine McEwan Foundation, that Abbie was helped. Abbie’s symptoms began in November 2020 and three months later, at just 16, she was diagnosed with the incurable inflammatory bowel disease.Abbie said: “When the symptoms started I had absolutely no energy. I had a massive loss in appetite and I got really skinny. I was being sick and felt sick and struggled to go to the toilet.
Abbie is now an ambassador for the Catherine McEwan Foundation, helping to raise awareness of the counselling sessions which are widely available to patients like her. Founder Derek McEwan, whose daughter Catherine died from Crohn’s aged 37, said: “While we will support patients from all over Scotland, sessions take place in Glasgow but we plan to expand the service to other locations in the coming months.”READ NEXT:
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