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too bad that we can't have names here, it's a bit confusing to reply to "anonymous" when most of us have that name.

so this is isabella mori again. i agree with the last commenter that it would be nice to have some evidence. do you have it, joanna? perhaps from your case notes?

however, it is interesting that the last commenter asserted that ED patients have had horrific childhoods "but only in the same percentage as the general population". i personally haven't seen any evidence of this, either. and if that evidence comes only from maudsley supporters then, with all due respect, i am inclined to take that with a grain of salt.

reading that first the daughter said her parents were horrible and now she says she's had an ideal childhood ... hmmm ... in my experience, many recovered people would not swing that far.

why can't we just say that we don't know (yet) what causes this condition? psychology is such a young science, we really don't know that much yet. and in humans, there is really rarely something that is THE cause. we are infinitely complex, and events interact in ways that are often hard to untangle.

what we DO know, in individual cases, is what seems to work. so why not concentrate on that for now, helping people with eating disorders heal one person at a time ...

June 7, 2009 - 5:49pm

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