I would add that maybe, just maybe the adult patients that you see are so enmeshed with their illness, that they themselves are looking to place blame. 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. The real patient is in there, being tortured by ed. The patient who could be helped -- not by being told to "choose" to get better, or to follow 12 steps -- but by being fed, lots of food, consistently, week after week, and supported until his or her brain heals. Who can do this best -- a clinician who sees the patient once a week? Or someone who lives with the patient and truly loves them...
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I would add that maybe, just maybe the adult patients that you see are so enmeshed with their illness, that they themselves are looking to place blame. 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. The real patient is in there, being tortured by ed. The patient who could be helped -- not by being told to "choose" to get better, or to follow 12 steps -- but by being fed, lots of food, consistently, week after week, and supported until his or her brain heals. Who can do this best -- a clinician who sees the patient once a week? Or someone who lives with the patient and truly loves them...
Erica
June 6, 2009 - 4:24pmThis Comment
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