How to Really Treat an Eating Disorder- It’s Not Just About the Food
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By Wendy Rice, Psy.D. Licensed Psychologist
Why won’t you just start eating more?!
Just eat more dessert- that will fix this eating problem!
What do you mean you force yourself to throw up after you eat??? Stop doing that!!!
The frustration expressed by parents of teenage girls struggling with an eating disorder generally centers around the counterintuitive and largely irrational nature of this disease. Parents see the overt and physical ramifications of problem; their child is losing an unhealthy amount of weight, is engaging in unhealthy weight control behaviors, and is starting to think and act in very different and often distressing ways.
As a...
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