Here is a link to a Time magazine article that came out today called "A Genetic Link Between Anorexia and Autism" http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1904999,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
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""[Anorexia is] highly heritable, it runs in families, and it's clear now that it's affected by a cluster of [early life] vulnerabilities like anxiety and perfectionism. If you don't have those vulnerabilities, you are very unlikely to develop anorexia," says Dr. Walter Kaye, director of the eating-disorders program at the University of California, San Diego.'
"Essentially, Treasure and her colleagues have abandoned the idea that family dysfunction causes eating disorders and instead enlist the family to help guide patients' recovery. Most recently, the Maudsley method has also incorporated a new type of cognitive behavioral therapy, based on the autism connection, which aims to broaden the narrow thinking routines of people with anorexia. "
"Treasure's colleagues at the Maudsley Hospital say current treatments are equally obsolete. In the late 1980s, the British researchers published the earliest studies describing what has become known as the Maudsley method of treating anorexia in teens — and it remains the only therapy that has proved effective in controlled trials. Unlike traditional treatment, which assumes that anorexia is caused by environmental factors and low self-esteem and often involves intense therapy at residential treatment centers, the outpatient Maudsley method does not focus on psychological therapies or on "parent-ectomy" — removing the teen from the home."
My D had anorexia and has a different ED now. My sister's S has autism. As far as we know, no one in our family before us or contemporary with us has had an ED or autism. Don't know where these disorders came from, but one thing is very clear -- we have both done everything in our power to love, support and help our kids, and we have never in any way been either neglectful nor have we inflicted pervasive boundary penetration on our children.
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Here is a link to a Time magazine article that came out today called "A Genetic Link Between Anorexia and Autism" http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1904999,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
quotes:
""[Anorexia is] highly heritable, it runs in families, and it's clear now that it's affected by a cluster of [early life] vulnerabilities like anxiety and perfectionism. If you don't have those vulnerabilities, you are very unlikely to develop anorexia," says Dr. Walter Kaye, director of the eating-disorders program at the University of California, San Diego.'
"Essentially, Treasure and her colleagues have abandoned the idea that family dysfunction causes eating disorders and instead enlist the family to help guide patients' recovery. Most recently, the Maudsley method has also incorporated a new type of cognitive behavioral therapy, based on the autism connection, which aims to broaden the narrow thinking routines of people with anorexia. "
"Treasure's colleagues at the Maudsley Hospital say current treatments are equally obsolete. In the late 1980s, the British researchers published the earliest studies describing what has become known as the Maudsley method of treating anorexia in teens — and it remains the only therapy that has proved effective in controlled trials. Unlike traditional treatment, which assumes that anorexia is caused by environmental factors and low self-esteem and often involves intense therapy at residential treatment centers, the outpatient Maudsley method does not focus on psychological therapies or on "parent-ectomy" — removing the teen from the home."
My D had anorexia and has a different ED now. My sister's S has autism. As far as we know, no one in our family before us or contemporary with us has had an ED or autism. Don't know where these disorders came from, but one thing is very clear -- we have both done everything in our power to love, support and help our kids, and we have never in any way been either neglectful nor have we inflicted pervasive boundary penetration on our children.
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