Read the text and choose the correct part to complete the sentence.
It took a lot of calm and gentle persuasion to get my tearful daughter to agree to go with me to a doctor who specialises in eating disorders. That was two years ago and the road to recovery has been long and hard. Sarah spent two months in hospital to get her weight back to normal and since then she has been seeing a psychiatrist to help her deal with the underlying causes of the problem.
Getting Sarah to seek professional help ...

• required patience.
• led to instant recovery.
• was quite easy to do.
• took several years.