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Switzerland234 Posts
September 07 2012 18:28 GMT
#21
On September 07 2012 14:00 babylon wrote:
Yeah, a psychologist/therapist is pretty much our last remaining option.

Do this immediately. Not only is this unhealthy behaviour but it's actually dangerous. Eating disorders do lasting damage to the body if not treated and are potentially lethal. If your mother doesn't go herself your family should make sure she does.
UmbraaeternuS
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Chile476 Posts
September 07 2012 18:35 GMT
#22
I'm a doctor, and I can tell you this is way beyond anything anyone can do here on TL.
Dude... An eating disorder that gets to that point is a serious issue. Don't wait any longer. Get her professional help. Therapy by a psychiatryst and support from you guys will be her only way out. I just hope you can find the strength within you to stay cool and keep being there for her.
Stay strong, mate... She needs you.
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babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
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Last Edited: 2012-09-07 19:31:26
September 07 2012 19:17 GMT
#23
She said she ate more this morning and @ lunchtime. Unfortunately it's difficult for me to monitor anything she eats before dinner because she's at work at that time, and she eats a miniscule amount for dinner. (If she eats past 6:00, she will throw up sometime during the night.) I can only make a plan and hope she keeps to it and hope she doesn't lie to me about what she's eating (whether intentionally or unintentionally, the other day she told me she ate a sandwich when she only ate 1/4 of one ...). I'm trying to encourage her to go seek out her company's EAP to get a referral from them for professional treatment.

Other than that it's hard to determine who to go to. Searching the internet just throws up a bunch of individual webpages and a list of possible therapists/nutritionists/dieticians/psychologists/counselors in the area (some of whom are more into alternative medicine than anything else afaik). I'm hoping she can just get a trusted referral from her company. Otherwise it feels like I'll be picking names out of a hat and hoping they work, but I suspect any licensed professional treatment is better than none at this point.
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
September 07 2012 19:41 GMT
#24
From what I've learned in psych class (College level stuff) It sounds like annorexia nervosa, you should take her to a psychologist to check it out, I am not a credible source. I'm sorry you have to deal with this, its time she sees a therapist.
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babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
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Last Edited: 2012-09-11 17:47:13
September 11 2012 17:45 GMT
#25
I'm getting a little fed up with trying to convince her to see a therapist.

Last week, she said that she's too busy, that it's too expensive, that she'll go in October. Then she turns around and says today that she wants to visit me in Chicago this month when I go back (right before school starts) to have a little vacation, and I'm just like, "With the plane ticket there and back, you can go to 2-3 therapy sessions. Also, what happened to being too busy?"

I know I hurt her by saying that, but seriously? What the hell? Are you too "busy" to take care of yourself or aren't you? Is it too expensive to take care of yourself or isn't it?

(She did hit 86 lbs yesterday though, so that is an improvement. I think she is eating a little bit more.

It is just super-weird to me that she spends so much time looking at food magazines at the store and reading recipes or watching the food channel -- I swear, the food channel is always on when she's watching TV -- but not eating asdfsjk;df;asdf)
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Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2446 Posts
September 12 2012 17:44 GMT
#26
On September 12 2012 02:45 babylon wrote:
I'm getting a little fed up with trying to convince her to see a therapist.

Last week, she said that she's too busy, that it's too expensive, that she'll go in October. Then she turns around and says today that she wants to visit me in Chicago this month when I go back (right before school starts) to have a little vacation, and I'm just like, "With the plane ticket there and back, you can go to 2-3 therapy sessions. Also, what happened to being too busy?"

I know I hurt her by saying that, but seriously? What the hell? Are you too "busy" to take care of yourself or aren't you? Is it too expensive to take care of yourself or isn't it?

(She did hit 86 lbs yesterday though, so that is an improvement. I think she is eating a little bit more.

It is just super-weird to me that she spends so much time looking at food magazines at the store and reading recipes or watching the food channel -- I swear, the food channel is always on when she's watching TV -- but not eating asdfsjk;df;asdf)


Yeah, and she'll be reading food labels, nutrition information, etc. Sure signs that it's an eating disorder (as if that weren't obvious). Keep working on getting her there.
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