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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is developing an eating disorder. I am completely freaked out.[/quote]

PP, check out this site they are really awesome.

http://www.aroundthedinnertable.org/?forum=136439#gsc.tab=0 [/quote]

thanks. Honestly, though, reading there just freaks me out even more. Especially because he is 18--we can't make him comply with treatment. I think we've caught it early, but it takes so long to find appropriate practitioners and who knows what will happen and how this will go. I'm wondering if he'll be able to go to college; we can't send him away if this isn't under control, and there is so little time left. I am terrified, and despairing, and completely bewildered. How has this happened? I can't sleep, I can't eat. His eating disorder is giving me one.[/quote]

There are a lot of people on that site who have gotten young adult children to comply with treatment. Even though he's 18, you probably still have leverage with him (paying for college, using your cars, etc.). [/quote]

To PP with DS with eating disorder.  If this developed suddenly, there is a chance this is PANDAS.  Did he have strep or something akin prior to this beginning?  It may be an outside chance, but this would be much more amenable to medication and so it is worth exploring.[/quote]

No, but the onset of his generalized anxiety/OCD was sudden and within 2 weeks of a strep infection, when he was 9. Unfortunately, it has never entirely gone away. So far, he's managed without medication, but I think he needs to try the meds now. I am hopeful that this is more about OCD than it is about an entrenched ED, since he was the one who alerted us to the problem (told us that he had become obsessed with counting calories and avoiding highly caloric foods, that it was making him crazy and starting to get out of control and that he thought he had lost too much weight). Hopeful, because I think perhaps OCD might be easier to treat than an ED, but maybe I am fooling myself. :-( [/quote]

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