First, it’s of paramount importance that you act early when your child shows signs of an eating disorder. Please don’t hesitate or worry that you’ll be seen as overreacting or interfering.

Returning to school is a worry, as the need to perform at high levels is so common to many with eating disorders.

Eating disorders are complex illnesses, and successful treatment often requires the dedicated efforts of a team of professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and nutritionists).

The teenager appears perfectly normal, but when expected to consume food the parents have designated as appropriate, anger, resentment, and bizarre behaviors emerge.

The eating disorder wins.

The only problem is that often when adolescents make decisions because they have an eating disorder, and battle for them, the fight is “fixed”—the eating disorder wins, and both you and your child lose.

Your daughter with anorexia has consumed mere crumbs of food, but she thinks she’s telling the truth when she says she’s eaten a huge amount of food today.

Your lack of confidence and uncertainty will often be perceived as a lack of resolve.

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