So none of these medical centers think her life is worth spending their own money on, but they’ll gladly ask for yours.
The obvious problem here is that the anorexia is a cry for attention. So she’s never going to voluntarily give it up UNLESS it no longer works as an attention-grabbing measure.
By lavishing her with attention, they are ensuring her problem will never be cured. This is massive positive reinforcement to a mental problem - big time malpractice if you ask me.
Have you looked deeply into anorexia?
This is the same narrative as the self-absorbed "alcoholic" industry. People focus so much on their "specialness" of being an alcoholic - ALWAYS an alcoholic - that they almost can't focus on anything else.
I worked with, supervised, such an "alcoholic," and that contrived status consumed her life. Going to meeting after meeting, even while out-of-town on company business, hamstrung her to the point that she couldn't function. It's a ready crutch to point to when you screw up.
AA is such a big psycho-babble crock!
....”By lavishing her with attention, they are ensuring her problem will never be cured”....
Exactly!
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.
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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