Eating Disorders

[ashleyjean3]

I am doing a project on Anorexia and was needing a few good inpatient treatment prgorams for girls around age 15. Do you know of any to recomend??? I know of the one at Yale but thats about all

Thanks!

[CharlieRN]

Denial is not a River in Egypt.

I have met a lot of health care professionals with unhealthy eating patterns who justify their own particular kink. I met an RN who was so severely anorexic that she had "excellent muscle definition" of her facial muscles. That's right you could see every one of them. No sub cutaneous fat left to speak of. She was convinced she was in excellent shape and wanted to teach others.

I knew a DID patient, whom I had treated at another faclity, who got a job working on our crisis intervention team. She was a strong musclar person and she had excellent martial arts training, which is incidently, a good auxillary therapy for women with abuse issuses. She asked me to respect her confidentiality, so of course I said nothing about knowing her from anywhere else. She was sure she was integrated and no longer in need of therapy. None the less, she lasted just about a month before the stress of her job forced her to withdraw.

I knew and worked with an RN on the women's Specialty Program (adult survivors of profound abuse in childhood), she lasted almost a year before her unresolved abuse issues were triggered by the patient's. Her meltdown was embarassingly public and not only cost her job with us but destroyed her current romantic relationship and forced her out of nursing.

The risk is too great. The price is too high. The path of wisdom is caution.