Posted on 05/25/2018 8:40:38 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Dying anorexia patient, 25, is denied treatment for the disorder by her insurance company who claim 'it's a luxury' as her weight drops to 58lbs
A 25-year-old woman with a debilitating eating disorder is preparing for the possibility of an early death as her insurance company treats a medical program she requires to live on as a luxury.
Katrina Howard, who succumbed to anorexia nervosa in her early teen years, has been sent from hospital to hospital for treatment - but doctors fear they are running out of effective options for the young woman - who has whittled to a frightening 58 pounds.
Howard grew up in a low-income family and is insured by Georgia Medicaid, a modest medical assistance program co-funded by the state and federal government.
Her current doctor, Paul Robinson, of the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, spoke this week about the troubling battle Howard has had with the company.
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Catering to a mental illness is basically the worst possible thing you can do for a mentally ill person - it reinforces the illness.
Unfortunately, that’s the only “treatment” available in a world where all financial incentives line up against curing a patient.
.......”Their self-worth is so low”....
So what? That’s a depressive state so treat it. If she chose not to be medicated then let her go! Too many of these gals need NOT to be catered to as they are early on.
Hunger strike? What are you talking about? Educate yourself because calling anorexia “hunger strike” is ignorant.
....”By lavishing her with attention, they are ensuring her problem will never be cured”....
Exactly!
Cheese burger and a milkshake and don’t let her upchuck it.
“Anorexia” is a serious character flaw, not an “illness.”
A medical hospital is never going to save her. She needs to be in a mental health facility.
just force feed these mental cases
Karen Carpenter was one of the first people to die of this that we know if. Until her death we did not know much about it and not much attention was paid to anorexia nervosa. Karen’s death brought it the attention that it needed.
I remember it happening, and all the articles about anorexia nervosa that followed her death.
You want to know what the real problem was? I read articles of teen girls who wanted to know HOW Karen did what she did so they could lose weight. They would read article after article on anorexia nervosa and do what Karen and others had done. Not making this up.
Another famous person to have had it? Cherry Boone O’Neil.
These girls feel like they “have control of their bodies” when really they have no control, and with anorexia they are out of control.
Our society has said that a beautiful woman is a thin one and these woman are pushing themselves to be that. There are women in certain cultures and time periods where rolls of fat on a woman was considered a sign of wealth and beauty but in or day and age every woman must look like the model Twiggy or she’s just ugly. Now we are upset with her that she gets this illness?
Enough already!
(Karen Carpenter) Deprived us all of that beautiful voice”
I know. I cried when she died, and I cried when Andrew Breitbart died. And my cats. That’s it.
The really sad thing is that everyone was pretty sure was in a good recovery when she died. But the damage to her heart had been done during the years before. Besides the non-eating of anorexia, she had been chowing down on ExLax. Also, somehow she’d scored something else — I think for thyroid (she had no thyroid problems) — which kept her weight down. A real mess. The best voice ever.
How is a $30,000 a month clinic has any better chance of helping her then a $5,000 a month clinic when she has had ‘years of clinic therapy already’ and has no desire to let go of the illness. ..further let her have her way...leave her alone..might be surprised when nobody’s paying attention what she’s able to do.
Carpenter’s issue was ‘control’ she had none nor didn’t know HOW to speak up. There is ALWAYS an underlying ‘condition’ or event...and sometimes just walking away from works .
About 15 years ago, she made headlines in my home state trying to get gay marriage passed.
I really, truly think that something happened to her in her childhood that set her down the anorexic and lesbian path. I have no clue if it was a family member or a supposed friend, who may have molested her, but it sure seems that way, given how she's turned out.
I remember reading about Karen. She was fine until she was told she needed to lose weight by some guy in the music biz.
It starts out as an emotional issue from what I understand, but anorexics usually die of electrolyte (sodium, potassium, etc.) abnormalities because the heart doesn’t beat right.
The daughter of our close friends was anorexic, and, far from a craving attention, she loathed attention. She wore padded clothes to conceal her problem. She wanted to be left alone.
A truly beautiful girl, she passionately aspired to be a ballerina, but by about 10th grade her doctor told her that her that she'd lost so much bone mass that if she tried even her easier routines she'd break her foot bones and her shins; and if she fell, she'd break her hip.
She was losing her ability to even assimilate food, and at that point, "just eating more" wouldn't help at all.
She finally pulled through after long, patient medical intervention, but is still not out of danger.
"Cry for attention"? She's quiet, socially avoidant, self-effacing to the point of self-erasing.
Your diagnosis is off.
” The daughter of our close friends was anorexic, and, far from a craving attention, she loathed attention. She wore padded clothes to conceal her problem. She wanted to be left alone.
A truly beautiful girl, she passionately aspired to be a ballerina, but by about 10th grade her doctor told her that her that she’d lost so much bone mass that if she tried even her easier routines she’d break her foot bones and her shins; and if she fell, she’d break her hip.”
So many ballerinas have Anorexia too. They have to be so thin to dance ballet and not sure why as the founders of that, Marie Taglioni and Anna Pavlova were not skinny! They were not fat but not skin and bones!
Same thing for these gymnasts. You know lot of those girls have developed eating disorders if not Anorexia then it’s bulimia nervosa sometimes both!!!
Just posted a story about her.. you are dead on no pun intended.
what utter bs you are spouting. Ignore her and she will get well? WRONG
“This is massive positive reinforcement to a mental problem - big time malpractice if you ask me.:
So trying to save a life is malpractice.
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