Is anorexia nervosa (AN) a chronic illness? What do we mean when we say that AN, or any other eating disorder, is a chronic illness? Wikipedia says: “The term chronic…
On Friday, Netflix released "To the Bone," a film about a young woman struggling with anorexia nervosa. The film has received a great deal of publicity, raising some questions…
This post was originally published on December 16, 2015. Possibly nothing has changed so much over the last ten years as the acceptance of parents’ role in the treatment of…
This post was originally published on February 13, 2012. I (among others) have recently been challenged by Laura Collins to get the message out that weight restoration is critical to…
This post was originally published on November 13, 2013. Until I lived in the world of therapists and mental health professionals as part of the Kartini multidisciplinary team treating children…
This post was originally published on June 12, 2013. We’ve all heard from parents whose child had (or has) an eating disorder and who re-feed them at home, single-handedly and…
The canny ability of eating disorders to twist even the most kindly meant words is something that is experienced by almost all our patients. We originally published this post back…
When I was first introduced to the Minnesota Semi-Starvation Study (MSSS), published in 1950 by Ancel Keys and his team, I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of data they…
The literature on lifetime mortality (the death rate) from anorexia nervosa has been cited as 20%, 10% and 5%, but I think whichever turns out to be the real number,…
One of the lesser known symptoms of early onset anorexia nervosa is “self abnegation” or even “self punishment.” Although these symptoms can be seen in older patients (adolescents) too, our…
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