Pain in the backside

"Due to the complexity of his needs... our service may not be able to provide the most appropriate or safe level of support." This was the response I received from the Hertfordshire Community Eating Disorders Services after being referred there by my GP for help with my anorexia. What these complexities are, it wasn't spelt out. Perhaps the clue was in this sentence: "We believe that accessing an eating disorder service closer to where he lives may be more suitable and better able to support his needs." That sounds fine, until you remember my local NHS trust was so negligent that we threatened legal action against them, because they failed to offer anything even approaching a reasonable level of support and I nearly died when they should have been helping me.  My BMI was closing in on single figures before an intervention took place, even as my family literally begged them to help (only to be repeatedly ignored). Eventually, when I was finally looked after by ...