Caraline's Story..A Young Anorexic's Final Months Part One

In late 1993, Caraline Neville-Lister, a young woman suffering from chronic Anorexia and Bulima, allowed a film crew to chart her struggles with her illness, and her attempts to come to terms with her childhood of serious sexual abuse.
Always harrowing, and often shocking, Caraline's story traces several weeks in the life of this remarkable, beautiful and articulate young woman.
The documentary was completed, and first broadcast in January 1994. Caraline died five months later on the 3rd of June.

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• Caraline
• Neville
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• Anorexia
• Bulimia
• Depression
• Illness
• Suicide

[RoteFedern]

It's almost ridiculous that people sympathize with someone who they see on TV but bully people at school, work or their neighbood with the same problem. Get a grip people. Everybody has a story and deserves to be treated with respect. (I don't want to be mean to anybody who said something nice about her though)

[azurelikeit1]

Please put subtitles on this, it inspired a song by one of the worlds biggest bands but half of it is inaudible.

[beyondtherapy001]

I hate this 'she is in a happier place' rubbish WHEN people use it to numb themselves against the reality of the fact that a life has been LOST. Feel it, feel the loss! I am saddened that the C. died but I guess better dead than living a life of bare existance. However, I firmly believe that death is not the only release from anorexia, there is also recovery.

[otherbrain]

@RileyVify Blessings on you in the work that you do. See my other comment above.

[otherbrain]

Oh my god what a sad and horrible tale. She was getting one on one treatment with the head therapist but she should also have had group treatment and lifeskills coaching. To go and talk about your abuse + troubles once a week only to return to an empty miserable lonely life for the rest of it = a recipe for ongoing pain and problems. She needed to be forgetting her pain sometimes with just normal fun, social activities - today's therapists should help organize that for the clients as well.

[pbg98pbgpbg98pbg]

I just realized something. I blame this 100 percent on the media.

Problems exhibited due to media

skin bleaching by many melanin races

hair color bleaching

anorexia

superficiality

cosmetic surgery addictions

suicides

[chaayanowut]

I'm not sry cuz now she's w.e. gud place she wants b

[Masychefx2]

dreadfully tragic story

im glad she is in a happier place, she deserves an eternity of bliss and more.

so sad, rip.

[0RoseRed]

RIP Sweet Caraline. I hope you are finally at peace, free from all the pain, abuse and loneliness you suffered here. I wish I had known you, been your friend. I hope you have found the happiness and love you sought so much here sweetheart. <3 Rose

[RileyVify]

@bloodymaryholic I work with girls/boys who suffer from eating disorders, some of then end stage, you have no idea what her story is and for you to call her pathetic and whiny when she has been sexually abused since childhood and was starved and abused in various other ways is shortsighted and emotionless. Yes, most anorexics are intelligent high achievers but the majority all have stages where they are crying messes. You don't need to have an ED to understand her story, all you need is a heart.

[herointoast]

@bloodymaryholic grow up.