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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get treatment soon.  However, remember that YOU can't stop anorexia in its tracks.  It is your DD's struggle.  It is great you are being so supportive, but do realize you can't stop this for her.  You sound like a super parent in recognizing  behaviors.  Your job is to provide tools for her to help herself.[/quote]

Actually, no, that is an out of date way of thinking about this illness.

If your child is under 18 you can stop this for him or her, and a child's agreement that he or she is ill, and desire to get better, is not required for treatment to begin.

The same way that a child with diabetes or cancer doesn't need to have tools to help herself heal -- she needs medicine to get better.

With anorexia, the medicine is nutrition, and that is what heals the brain.  If the illness makes it impossible for a child to eat, he or she can and should receive the nutrition through tube feeding as a hospitalized patient, until he or she is able to take the medicine through eating.[/quote]

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