I would love to hear how this turned out. I also have a 27 year old daughter with anorexia, and she has been slowly returning to her old ways of restricting, only, this time, also restricting sleep. I live thousands of miles away and am afraid she is spiraling downward, being less and less willing to listen to my request that she get help. I wonder if it might be possible to get a court order over someone who is in the kind of condition described by the writer here - the usual standard for being able to impose medical care or other restraints on someone is that they are a danger to others, or a danger to themselves. Clearly, people suffering from anorexia but not willing to get treatment suggests they are a danger to themselves. I pray, hope and wish all power to the mom who wrote, and to for her daughter - that she can have a window of sanity through which she can see a path and begin on it - toward recovery and management.
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I would love to hear how this turned out. I also have a 27 year old daughter with anorexia, and she has been slowly returning to her old ways of restricting, only, this time, also restricting sleep. I live thousands of miles away and am afraid she is spiraling downward, being less and less willing to listen to my request that she get help. I wonder if it might be possible to get a court order over someone who is in the kind of condition described by the writer here - the usual standard for being able to impose medical care or other restraints on someone is that they are a danger to others, or a danger to themselves. Clearly, people suffering from anorexia but not willing to get treatment suggests they are a danger to themselves. I pray, hope and wish all power to the mom who wrote, and to for her daughter - that she can have a window of sanity through which she can see a path and begin on it - toward recovery and management.
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