"Their brains are so twisted by chronic malnutrition, and their clinicians are so willing to accept without question what these patients are telling them. "My mother controlled me. My father molested me." Maybe it is the ed talking, and not the real patient. "
Now that is just arrogant. Okay, maybe our perceptions have become distored by our illness and we might be prone to misinterpret or exagerrate things. An overprotective but loving mother might be misinterpreted as "controlling" or "domineering" by someone who is in the depths of an eating disorder. But if a patient complains about something specific like, "My father used to say I was a fat ugly cow" or "My father molested me" she should NOT be dismissed as just another "crazy" patient who is making it up.
How dare you invalidate our experiences like that! You are extremely arrogant and narrowminded ERICA!
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"Their brains are so twisted by chronic malnutrition, and their clinicians are so willing to accept without question what these patients are telling them. "My mother controlled me. My father molested me." Maybe it is the ed talking, and not the real patient. "
Now that is just arrogant. Okay, maybe our perceptions have become distored by our illness and we might be prone to misinterpret or exagerrate things. An overprotective but loving mother might be misinterpreted as "controlling" or "domineering" by someone who is in the depths of an eating disorder. But if a patient complains about something specific like, "My father used to say I was a fat ugly cow" or "My father molested me" she should NOT be dismissed as just another "crazy" patient who is making it up.
How dare you invalidate our experiences like that! You are extremely arrogant and narrowminded ERICA!
June 13, 2009 - 11:49amThis Comment
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