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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually the parents, a controlling Mother, that contribute to the onset and worsening of the disorder. So take a look in the mirror and at your post trying to &quot;control&quot; the outcome. Great place to start, your own behavior towards your daughter.[/quote]

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Of course OP is trying to control the outcome of her stepdaughter starving herself.   The outcome of starving yourself, is death.  Of all mental health disorders, anorexia has the highest fatality rate.   Of long time sufferers, 20% die.   If your child had cancer, you would try to get her the treatment she needed.

[b]OP has been poorly served by the child's pediatrician[/b], who has outdated information about the seriousness of this mental health illness.   Unfortunately some pediatricians do not recognize the signs of anorexia until a child is at 1 or 2% weight for age.   This is nonsense.   A child who has always been 75th %ile weight for age who is dropping to 5th %ile can be suffering all the health and brain effects of anorexia.   And if you wait until they hit that 2nd%ile and are having heart troubles they can land in the hospital for a lengthy stay, and their anorexia has had time to become entrenched and much more difficult to treat.[/quote]

This was my thought, too.  It is very scary that this pediatrician is operating under such a huge misconception that it is the child's behavior, not the child's current weight, that is the concern.[/quote]

Yikes.  Bad editing by me in my response post.  &lt;...It is very scary that this pediatrician is operating under such a huge misconception.  [b]It is the [/b]child's behavior, not the child's current weight, that is the concern.&gt;[/quote]

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