The point about malnutrition as a trigger is interesting.
My daughter's anorexia began while she was away at college and got her own apartment.
She said that it was common for the students to live on Rami noodles and light snacks for meals as they studied away - and that is what she did.
Her mini-meals became such a departure from the substantial meals we served up at home.
In IP, she told the doc that she basically "forgot" to eat .... and frankly, there is some truth to that.
Whether the start up was all about 'forgetting' to eat or numbing herself to the stresses she was coping with ... probably a combination of both and so much more ... malnutrition definitely played a role in triggering the start of this horrid anorexia.
It didn't help, either, that she inherited the anorexia gene, in that I, too, suffered from anorexia during my college years.
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The point about malnutrition as a trigger is interesting.
My daughter's anorexia began while she was away at college and got her own apartment.
She said that it was common for the students to live on Rami noodles and light snacks for meals as they studied away - and that is what she did.
Her mini-meals became such a departure from the substantial meals we served up at home.
In IP, she told the doc that she basically "forgot" to eat .... and frankly, there is some truth to that.
Whether the start up was all about 'forgetting' to eat or numbing herself to the stresses she was coping with ... probably a combination of both and so much more ... malnutrition definitely played a role in triggering the start of this horrid anorexia.
It didn't help, either, that she inherited the anorexia gene, in that I, too, suffered from anorexia during my college years.
June 10, 2009 - 3:13pmThis Comment
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