Every time I called her for lunch, she refused to sit at the table. Instead, she would take her plate to the bathroom, where she had already placed a small chair. There, she would lock the door and only then start eating. When she was finished, she would come out with an empty plate, as if nothing unusual had happened.

At other times, she never went there to play or sit – the bathroom had become just her eating place. At first, I thought, “It’s probably just a game, it will pass soon.” But when this repeated every day for a whole month, I got scared. The worst thoughts started flashing through my mind: could something be wrong with her?

Talking to my daughter was useless – she responded to my questions with silence. So I decided: in the morning, I