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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As another parent of a kid with an eating disorder (anorexia) those who haven’t dealt with it are dismissive and don’t know what it is. Even our pediatrician was just anxious and unhelpful. If you son is displaying anxiety, restricting, obsessions or compulsions around food, worth checking out With real professionals - find someone who does FBT and Maudsley methods - only evidence based approaches. And check out. About up to  15% of teens have a genetic predisposition to an ED that can be triggered. Dodder t than Other typical eating problems. Anorexics and blue ice can be any weight - despite pop culture understanding  https://www.feast-ed.org/  and How to Help Your Team With an Eating Disorder by Lock and I forget the other author. [/quote]

Sorry for all the weird auto correct typos. Point being there is a continuum of eating issues - some normative and some not. Worth figuring out if you’re in the not category (including some that are real mental illnesses) and some teens harm
Themselves in their processes of trying to be fit (this can be overlapping) - and the sooner the better before things get settled in [/quote]

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