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It must be a Horrific experience to feel and believe that you have some horrible serious disorder. The medical community and the public in general should be educated on the fact this is not Making it up. It is actually felt.
Thank you for this. It helps me know many of the mistakes I have been making and sets me on the right path to help my loved one. I cannot believe how exact these behaviors fit my situation. It's almost like I wrote the script. My loved one isn't worried about weight but other food related issues. It has been very difficult.Thank you
Great Video! Will impact how we approach our daughter's ED. I have to watch more than once---too many tears! Go young ladies everywhere! You can do it. Don't give in!
I am unclear why these parents, and further more, this video, promotes service of food to the youth? Why have these youth not been given a relationship with food by being taught how to prepare it themselves? Wouldn't given them the power to make more choices and have control and responsibility within the family to take on a part of this responsibility? Wouldn't that be more empowering to them, rather than to continue to treat them without respect that they are capable to do this? Even better, teach them how food is grown and where to acquire quality products. I would suspect a child that is involve in self and family care, such as nutritional well being of food preparation, since youth, would create a more balance mind set for the child in the first place. And aid them in their ease of transition into an empowered life, once they are on their own. I am glad to see such research and support, but I believe this could be taken into further respect of the Youth and their innate relationships with themselves, family, community, as well as career wise for Life.
Aloha, I agree talk therapy is can be very, very helpful. However, people should be very careful here. Many health disorders start out as others labeling what they don't understand, so they give it a name. Later, science and medicine painfully drag out the truth. They give it a name because they already believe they know what it is, and it turns out that they didn't. Headaches, Cancer and MS are just a few out of thousands where science finally will find or have found biological markers, yet prior to that, "educated practitioners" told their patients that they were imagining illness. That is just my opinion, yet I am willing to bet anyone, that in the future we will look barbaric as to how we "treated" patients today with very old methods and ones promoted in universities by drug companies. There is a real organized disinformation campaign going on globally because at the end of the day it's about shareholder, profit! Yes, practice mindfulness and awareness, as it is helpful in the absence of underfunded and well managed medical science. Be well and aloha :)))
Then the fighting starts if she tells me to finish it, leading me to restrict more through the day or the next day, to purge, or to excercise at least an hour depending how much I HAD to eat
For me, if my mom was that demanding to make me eat what she cooked/made for me, I would eat some of it or pick the lowest calories of that specific meal. Ex. Eating mostly the low cal veggies in a veggie stirfry, like the cauliflower, not the corn. Or picking the "cleanest" veggies of that stirfry meal, meaning the veggies that have less oils/butters/salty seasonings/sauces on it
So glad to know that Jadine is still working there! Having a dietician that actually listens and cares about finding ways to make a meal plan work is so crucial to recovery. Jadine, YOU ROCK! -Juliana
