I have a friend with anorexia and her boundaries as a child/teen/adult have been repeatedly and aggressively violated by her parents, her father in particular. As a criminal defense lawyer with 20 years of experience, I have represented hundreds of clients with mental health issues. In each and every case, the parents failed their son/daughter. And every young woman I've represented with a mental health problem had an unhealthy relationship with her father. I, therefore, have difficult time believing that anorexia is a biologically based disease. Many parents that fail their children would like to blame a psychiatric condition on genetics or some other such nonsense. It I suspect that the negative reactions from the parents responding to this article are based mostly on denial.
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I have a friend with anorexia and her boundaries as a child/teen/adult have been repeatedly and aggressively violated by her parents, her father in particular. As a criminal defense lawyer with 20 years of experience, I have represented hundreds of clients with mental health issues. In each and every case, the parents failed their son/daughter. And every young woman I've represented with a mental health problem had an unhealthy relationship with her father. I, therefore, have difficult time believing that anorexia is a biologically based disease. Many parents that fail their children would like to blame a psychiatric condition on genetics or some other such nonsense. It I suspect that the negative reactions from the parents responding to this article are based mostly on denial.
October 31, 2009 - 2:22pmThis Comment
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