In a statement read to the hearing by their barrister Anna Morris KC, Emily’s parents David and Susan said she was a “bright, beautiful girl” with her whole life ahead of her.
She “loved animals, especially elephants, and enjoyed ballet, gymnastics and swimming as well as shopping trips with her family”, the inquest heard.
The statement said that Emily was a “very happy child” but that she developed mental health issues as a teenager which made her feel “worthless”.
This had come as a “great shock” to the family, the statement said.
Emily’s parents said they would get “glimpses” of a future after her illness in which she said she wanted to become a mental health professional or paramedic but she was “never able to recover from her illness.”
Her move to adult services was “deeply distressing” for her and she was dead within a week of it happening, Emily’s parents said.
They were left living with “profound sorrow and frustration about what she endured”.
Her parents said they had only had their daughter for “the shortest time” but that she had made them proud.
“She is now the brightest star in the sky,” they said.