Recovery From Anorexia Is Doable
Recovery from anorexia may go on for years or decades. It can be a soul destroying journey where you may lose faith in religion and all that western medicine can humanly offer. The emotional anguish and torture frequently goes on for years and is exhausting and frustrating beyond the limits of normal human endurance.
The treatment journey and the suffering of both parent and child is challenging beyond comprehension. The perfect female body image is imprinted in the anorexic patient's mind and they look at themselves with self loathing and disgust which pushes them harder and harder to abstain from eating. It defies logic. Recovery from anorexia can only begin with recognition of the self harm that the eating disorder is causing.
Teenagers and twenty somethings die or nearly die in hospitals around the world every single day. This can be frightening, frustrating and deeply disturbing. It is difficult to imagine how people can endure the hunger that leads to this disorder? It is important to engage the frustrations and challenges to enable recovery from anorexia. The condition can feel like being on an elevator that you just can't get off as together you and your child go lower and lower and lower without hope of return.
Deception is a game that the patient becomes extremely competent at as they deliberately attempt to deceive their carers and parents. It can be like a game of cat and mouse and the parent lives their life as Sherlock Holmes as they search for clues in the battle to make their child eat and prevent them from purging. The treatment regime is a twenty four hour a day torture that will push the parent beyond the limits of normal human endurance.
Counceling may result in only temporary success in treating anorexia. Improvement can be cyclical from seemingly cured to total relapse. To potentiate the anorexia and continue the deception, bulimia often develops. The game of deception and lies becomes well developed in order to hide the anorexia from parents, friends and doctors. Purging food behind closed doors is the simplest and easiest deception. Anorexia is a manic obsession about body shape.
Group therapy is frequently unsuccessful. By some twisted irony, the members of the treatment group may become competitive towards each other to become the sickest in the group which is counterproductive. The other frequently encountered problem with group therapy is that the patients develop a peer group of support as they all start to encourage and help each other through the disorder. On completeion of group therapy when the group is fractured and separated, the support group of peers is taken away leading to frequent relapse of the disorder.
An alternate treatment now recognised and encouraged by some doctors may offer new hope in successful recovery from anorexia. There is a treatment called neuroplasticity that is powerful and effective and is endorsed by many doctors.
The treatment journey and the suffering of both parent and child is challenging beyond comprehension. The perfect female body image is imprinted in the anorexic patient's mind and they look at themselves with self loathing and disgust which pushes them harder and harder to abstain from eating. It defies logic. Recovery from anorexia can only begin with recognition of the self harm that the eating disorder is causing.
Teenagers and twenty somethings die or nearly die in hospitals around the world every single day. This can be frightening, frustrating and deeply disturbing. It is difficult to imagine how people can endure the hunger that leads to this disorder? It is important to engage the frustrations and challenges to enable recovery from anorexia. The condition can feel like being on an elevator that you just can't get off as together you and your child go lower and lower and lower without hope of return.
Deception is a game that the patient becomes extremely competent at as they deliberately attempt to deceive their carers and parents. It can be like a game of cat and mouse and the parent lives their life as Sherlock Holmes as they search for clues in the battle to make their child eat and prevent them from purging. The treatment regime is a twenty four hour a day torture that will push the parent beyond the limits of normal human endurance.
Counceling may result in only temporary success in treating anorexia. Improvement can be cyclical from seemingly cured to total relapse. To potentiate the anorexia and continue the deception, bulimia often develops. The game of deception and lies becomes well developed in order to hide the anorexia from parents, friends and doctors. Purging food behind closed doors is the simplest and easiest deception. Anorexia is a manic obsession about body shape.
Group therapy is frequently unsuccessful. By some twisted irony, the members of the treatment group may become competitive towards each other to become the sickest in the group which is counterproductive. The other frequently encountered problem with group therapy is that the patients develop a peer group of support as they all start to encourage and help each other through the disorder. On completeion of group therapy when the group is fractured and separated, the support group of peers is taken away leading to frequent relapse of the disorder.
An alternate treatment now recognised and encouraged by some doctors may offer new hope in successful recovery from anorexia. There is a treatment called neuroplasticity that is powerful and effective and is endorsed by many doctors.
