"Early in their lives, people with eating disorders have experienced, on a sustained basis, relentless boundary invasion on every level.
When their physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, sexual, and creative boundaries are consistently ignored and penetrated, people experience total boundary invasion. With no control and no way to end, protest, or, often, even acknowledge such invasions, these persons feel helplessness, despair, and a certainty that they are worthless to themselves or anyone else"
I am sorry, but I would like to know where you base this on? Does this have any evidence based theory. Please enlighten me on where you have developed this theory or model of care.
I am currently living and caring for a child with a significant eating disorder for over a year. According to FBT approach, she will not be a sufferer for her lifetime. Yes, she may need to always monitor her eating in a sense, that she does not lose weight during illness or time of stress. Looking at her development now approximately 16 years, she has not experienced "total boundary invasion" and she would tell you so herself. She is now weight restored and is healing... the key... she is not malnourished, therefore her brain is able to now reason and she is actually telling me how greatful she is to have a mom like me.
The parent blaming game needs to stop. You are hurting people when the average person who may read your article may stick to the old theories of controlig mother etc. No where in your article does it indicate that this is about older women with eating disorders who may never have received proper care.
By the way, FEAST is not only for the few insightful or caring parent...it is for all of us and I am by no means a Superparent! I am just a loving mom who will fight for her child and so glad there is evidence TODAY in the literature for her recovery from a brain disorder. It is not her choice, or her fault. It is not her environment.
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"Early in their lives, people with eating disorders have experienced, on a sustained basis, relentless boundary invasion on every level.
When their physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, sexual, and creative boundaries are consistently ignored and penetrated, people experience total boundary invasion. With no control and no way to end, protest, or, often, even acknowledge such invasions, these persons feel helplessness, despair, and a certainty that they are worthless to themselves or anyone else"
I am sorry, but I would like to know where you base this on? Does this have any evidence based theory. Please enlighten me on where you have developed this theory or model of care.
I am currently living and caring for a child with a significant eating disorder for over a year. According to FBT approach, she will not be a sufferer for her lifetime. Yes, she may need to always monitor her eating in a sense, that she does not lose weight during illness or time of stress. Looking at her development now approximately 16 years, she has not experienced "total boundary invasion" and she would tell you so herself. She is now weight restored and is healing... the key... she is not malnourished, therefore her brain is able to now reason and she is actually telling me how greatful she is to have a mom like me.
The parent blaming game needs to stop. You are hurting people when the average person who may read your article may stick to the old theories of controlig mother etc. No where in your article does it indicate that this is about older women with eating disorders who may never have received proper care.
June 7, 2009 - 11:15amBy the way, FEAST is not only for the few insightful or caring parent...it is for all of us and I am by no means a Superparent! I am just a loving mom who will fight for her child and so glad there is evidence TODAY in the literature for her recovery from a brain disorder. It is not her choice, or her fault. It is not her environment.
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