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Here you will find articles that discuss family relationships and family structure that influence the development of an eating disorder or the healing of an eating disorder or both within the family system.
I spoke with a father this week who told me his daughter, 35 years old, no longer threw up but still had compulsive thought patterns and feelings of shame. He said the first he and his wife knew their daughter had a problem was when a friend of her confided to them that their daughter, then 20 years old, was suicidal. I was so moved by this man's story, especially when he thanked me, with tears in his eyes, because it was the first time he spoke about his feelings about his daughter's trials.
The question that comes up is, why would a loving parent who saw his child every day not notice
Suffering from an eating disorder is a lonely business. You have to pretend to be happy, competent and fine without letting the people around you know your desperation. Yes, when you come right down to it, just about every action that stems from an eating disorder is an act of desperation. The binge, restriction, denial, purge, starvation, exercise, controlling behaviors - these are all unhappy and desperate activities that you try to keep secret. When you have so many secrets
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The mother of three children wrote saying she's had an eating disorder for two years since the birth of her last child. When the child was born this woman stopped eating, felt depressed, lost weight and still sees herself as fat when she sees her reflection.
She feels elated when she loses weight, works out in the gym for three hours a day or more. She doesn't eat all day, just drinks water and diet drinks. If she does eat she purges as much as she can get out of her body.
Recently "I" wrote me about her friend "C". "C" is in her twenties and a brilliant athlete. But "C" suffered from anorexia so severely that she required several hospitalizations. She can't perform or even coach because it triggers her anorexia. She has no family support. Quite the contrary. Her family rejected her because of her sexual orientation.
Once in a while she does perform, leaving the audience dazzled at the beauty and grace of her excellence. But her actions, despite their beauty, trigger her and she falls into emotional devastation. What, asks, "I," as her friend, can I do or say?
Before watching this, prepare yourself for 21 minutes and 53 seconds of a wild ride through eating disorders. If you haven't seen the outrageous and wonderful American Dad cartoon "The American Dad After-School Special", buckle your psychological seat belts.
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