- Teenager is now in Ilford police station awaiting reunion with her family
- Ella Hysom had last been seen on Monday in Ilford, East London
- The 15-year-old had been treated for depression at a residential clinic
- Police had said they were 'extremely concerned' for the teenager's welfare
Found: Ella Hysom, who had gone missing during treatment for depression, has been found safe and well
Elly Hysom had not been seen since lunchtime on Monday, close to a residential clinic where she had been receiving treatment for six weeks.
Yesterday her parents made an emotional appeal for her return but today police confirmed she had been found.
She vanished hours after writing online: ‘I just want to die and hopefully that will happen so I don’t have to wake up tomorrow morning.’
Police search teams had been combing the area, and yesterday her parents asked for help in finding their ‘weak and vulnerable’ daughter.
Her mother Alison, 43, said: ‘Ella, darling, please just get in contact. We love you so much. You are so loved by all your friends and family. We just want you back, darling. If anyone has seen her, please get in touch.’
Her father Tim, 43, added: ‘We just want to know that Ella is safe, we want her back, but we want to know she is safe.’
A keen rower and ballroom dancer, Ella, who was deputy head girl at The Gilberd School in Colchester, was said to be ‘gregarious’, ‘lively’ and ‘confident’.
But her parents said she had become depressed, which had made her anxious and nervous.
The blonde schoolgirl’s Facebook page suggested she had split from a boyfriend who had found a new girlfriend.
Around the time she was admitted to the residential care unit in East London at the start of October, Ella left a series of emotional messages on Twitter.
Ella, who is deputy head girl at her school, is said to be 'gregarious', 'lively' and 'confident'
Ella went missing at about 1pm on Monday in Ilford, East London. She had been visiting Goodmayes but is from Colchester, in Essex
She wrote: ‘The higher I get, the lower I sink. I can’t drown my demons, they know how to swim.
‘I’m scared to get close, I hate being alone, I long for that feeling to not feel at all. Hold me close, don’t let go, watch me burn in this hospital for souls. Now it’s 3 in the morning and I’m trying to change your mind... Pathetic that this is all over a boy.
‘LOL [laugh out loud] bye bye world until I’m “healthy” again.’
Asked how she was feeling on the social networking site Tumblr hours before she went missing, she posted: ‘I just want to die and hopefully that will happen so I don’t have to wake up tomorrow morning. Then I will feel okay.’
She had earlier written: ‘Every night I convince myself tomorrow will be different, but it never is... I feel kind of dead... boys don’t like fat girls. I think I’m more scared of living than I am of dying... Too young to be so sad.’
She had also posted an image of an arm covered in cuts.
Ella's parents Alison (left) and Tim Hyson (right) made an emotional plea to find their missing daughter
Ella's mother Alison (left) urged anyone who had seen her daughter to 'please get in touch'. The teenager's father Tim (right) described her as 'confident and outgoing'
‘I say I’ll jump but never do. My life is so empty right now. Pretty girls make me want to die.’
Hundreds of her friends from school and the Sudbury Rowing Club took to Twitter and Facebook in a bid to trace the teenager.
'The higher I get, the lower I sink. I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim... I long for that feeling to not feel at all'
Ella Hysom on Twitter
Ella's parents have also been using social media to try to track down their daughter who has now been missing for three nights. Ella Hysom on Twitter
Mrs Hysom posted on her Facebook page this morning: 'Thank you to all those who are helping to find Ella, whether it is by putting up posters, tweeting, via Facebook or providing information.
'We just want her home and safe x'
Family and friends have been putting up posters of the missing teenager, hoping that it could lead to a breakthrough.
Mrs Hysom also posted: 'Another way to reach Ella is to print off the official poster and put up in your car windows and in shop windows in your own local areas - anywhere that you think she might see them - thank you all for your support and please keep supporting x'.
On Monday, Ella’s parents, who live in a £320,000 home in Colchester, were told that she had gone missing.
Ella had been in Ilford receiving treatment for depression at a residential care centre
She was last seen walking alone in a nearby road in Ilford at around 1.15pm, wearing blue jeans, Ugg boots, a green coat and a jumper.Her mother, who works for a management training company, said: ‘She has been suffering from depression for some time and she has been receiving treatment.’
She said 5ft 9in Ella appears much older than 15, adding: ‘People will know her for being really outgoing and gregarious. She seems much older than her years.
‘Although she could easily pass for 18, she is only 15 and is in a weak and vulnerable position.’
She said Ella’s 11-year-old sister and nine-year-old brother were ‘visibly distressed’.
Her father, a company executive, said: ‘We are trying to cope and use all the means at our disposal to find Ella.
‘We have been out searching, helping the police to search, using social media to try to spread the news of Ella’s disappearance.
‘It has been emotional.’
Detective Inspector John Delaney said there was no evidence of foul play, adding: ‘We are concerned for her welfare because she is vulnerable, she is suffering from depression and she is just 15.’
A Gilberd School spokesman today told MailOnline: 'Staff and pupils are very concerned to learn of her disappearance and we urge anyone who has any information about her whereabouts to get in touch with the police.'
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