5 TIPS to RECOVER from an EATING DISORDER
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No one knows about my ed only me I'm recovering alone and it's much harder
Dm me on Instagram @recoverwithme1 I wanna talk to
Live With me same
Me too I don’t want to tell anyone or do anything in public I just want to get over it myself
Live With me gurl same
Live With me thought I was the only one. Thank you for sharing this comment
I did it! I finally got out of anorexia!
Congrat
Any tips ?
i need ur tips
Good job!
Yayy
Congrats❤
im scared im gonna start eatting again and gain more weight then i started
I used to feel this too, but what you should do after gain a certain weight that is considered healthy for you is to try to maintain it by exercising and eating healthy
Same
You can gain as much weight as you want and if you're too scared you can workout every day but make sure you are eating properly 💖
how you doing?
Moderation and control is key Once you start that it becomes more and more easy
I always forget the heart is actually a muscle. Wow that's scary! Thank you for clearung that up again!
i did it , its been 1 month i gained weight . i ate too much ( no binging ) ! i never knew its easy . you just have to fight hard and WANT to recover .
Anoosy Cute That's motivating! I eat around 2800 - 2900 and am 110lbs and 5"11.5.Before 2 months ago I started my food routine. I went from eating 1100 callories to where I am now. I still haven't gained any weight ...idk what's wrong with me so thank you for the inspiration.
I’m happy you can easily recover but saying “you just have to fight hard and want to recover.” Is kinda rude to people who are really struggling with recovering. It’s not just food intake that has to change it’s a mindset that has to change too.
caleb weiss raaberg can u tell us how you’ve done? i’m really scared rn about my weight :(
Cam Uribe R same kiddo i think the last time i was a healthy weight was when i was 5 and i’m almost 18 :(
caleb weiss raaberg my weight gain rapidly but lowkey my appearance doesn’t change so much as the speed of my weight
Correction: More than half of people who die from eating disorders, die from suicide. These numbers might be higher since many people might go undiagnosed if they're not visibly symptomatic.
Thorgerdur Halldorsdottir correction: if they die from suicide they die from suicide NOT an eating disorder she clearly means that more than half of deaths caused directly by the eating disorder itself are heart failure
then where are you getting your statistic?
i don’t wonder why
OOOhh we're detectives! what a perfect description of the process of figuring out what helps us, triggers us, and who we are! Thanks Kati!!
i love this
I just started reading "life without ed" the idea of dissociating yourself from a personified ED has given me a lot of hope.
Kati, thank you so much for what you are doing for us! That is so important to receive support when no one else takes you seriously, when nobody considers BED as a real problem.Thank you for your advice and help.
I’m really trying to recover it’s so hard. I’ve tried doing it by myself and then developed bulimia on top of my anorexia and so I’m trying to find a place to get help.
i hope your doing okay!
You seem so caring and down to earth. I'm glad you know your stuff and are sharing it all of us out here who need your help.
Kati, I want to thank you so much for all of your videos. I had a pretty rough childhood that only got worse with time. Long story short, I recently went to a therapy intensive for two weeks that completely changed my life. Like you, they were so understanding, soft spoken, and willing to strongly nudge me in the right direction. It was very difficult to discuss certain things, but they were just so empathetic. I love to help other and that's a large part of why I'm heading into the medical field. After the intensive I almost want to become a therapist.
Midway through my second week I became terrified that I wouldn't end up maintaining everything I had learned and improved about my emotional health. They helped me develop a plan to ensure I would continue in the right direction as well as what to do if I started slipping. I chanced upon your videos, and am now hooked. I've added your videos to my list of things to keep me in the right frame of mind. I plan to watch several videos a day until I have watched them all, yeah that will take a while. I hope (know) that your videos will keep me positive and planted in good emotional health until it becomes second nature to me. Thank you again, Seth
I found your channel a few months ago when I started attending counselling sessions and it has really helped me. I have always suffered from anxiety but a few years ago it started affecting my relationship with food. I still don't fully know why it happened but I started to feel like I had a lump in my throat and became fearful of choking on my food. This eventually meant that I started restricting my food intake and lost a lot of weight. When I first started going to counselling sessions I genuinely thought I didn't have an eating disorder, however, since watching your ED videos I have started to realise that I actually do. This realisation has enabled me to start getting better and deal with the irrational fear that has controlled my life for far too long. Thank you for your informative and supportive videos :) x
This was really helpful, thank you so much! It's just so hard to make the choice and commit to recovery.
Thank you sooo much for this video!!! I know i requested something like it awhile ago, and this is soo helpful! ThAnks again!
I really do want to get better but I'll be 18 in a few months and I will have free range of whatever I do and eat. I've already lost 10 pounds in 5 months and nobody has noticed(thank god) Thank you for the video it is helpful and great as always! Gives me hope for the future! Love you Kati! 💜
Thank you for making these videos! You are helping so many people (including me) 💕😊
The intuitive eating book helped me to start processing my eating problems with my therapist. It talked about things that I've never thought had anything to do with my eating disorder
I went through all that and recovered about two years ago without my parents or doctor ever knowing. Sadly, I got really good at lying. Please, if you can, do what Kati said and see your doctor. I had to make my willpower work in the opposite direction and force myself to eat a reasonable amount. I also watched RUclips documentaries to scare myself into recovering. It was scary, but I got really lucky because it worked, even though I relapsed once. I was too scared to tell anyone until just last year, and then I told someone I trust for safety in case I relapsed again. I haven’t. I am so glad that more people have resources like this channel so they don’t have to be completely alone. Thanks, Kati, for all you do.
I would HIGHLY recommend anything by brene brown but I did just finish her book The Gifts of Imperfection and it was honestly groundbreaking for my recovery! It is an incredible read for anyone, but especially those who struggle with mental health! Thanks again for all you do Kati :)
Just went and ordered that book.
Loving what is by Byron Katie. It's helped me address a lot of painful stories that I had hidden away and question them to in order to find peace.. When I was able to find that peace I felt more in control of my binging.
For anorexia recovery, specifically for adults (there is some swearing in the book, btw) Rehabilitate, Rewire, Recover! By Tabitha Farrar is very helpful for me.
Kati awesome video yet again. Your videos inspire me to keep trying to recover even though I had a bad relapse lately. I will keep pushing :)
good they inspire me too im 13 and have bdd and excercise far too much
Thank you for this video! I struggled for 15 years by myself, and then I went to residential treatment. I learned the tools to regulate some of there thoughts in my mind but I did not learn how to connect to my body or to my spirit. It wasn't until I started making art and using creative outlets that I truly started to uncover my authentic voice. ED had been so loud that I didn't know who I was. I went on to study and research eating disorders in my Masters Degree, and today I help women to connect to their authentic voice using creativity as an add on to their care team.
Thank you for the free workbook, it looks fantastic!
Katie,please talk about the deeper food issues,such as food being all the source of pleasure in our lives,the only food we look forward to(in case of Bed),using as a crutch,source of novelty and a way to relax and zone out.these r my serious issues and I would benefit from digging deeper into these vulnerable subjects,thanks dear,u r super helpful,God bless u
Thank you Katie, your eating disorder videos always help me! I'm still to scared to tell my parents about my ed, so these tips should really help a lot!
can you talk about how eating disorders are competitive? and how watching the wrong videos and following the wrong people can be dangerous? i’m happy to have found your channel.
This is so helpful! I make videos on recovery from eating disorders also, I find your channel is so so inspiring!
How to Disappear Completely by Kelsey Osgood and Gaining: Life after ED by Amy Lei were both really amazing for me. I love how they talk about EDs from a different perspective. Not a book I would recommend for someone first starting out (they're not workbooks) but I just found them really helpful in learning why I acted the way I did and ways to move on from that.
Thank you so much Kati ❤️
The Overcoming Bulimia Workbook is fantastic. My therapist gives me pages from it and it helps so much I want the full version
Can you share this workbook with me, it may be helpful for my clients.
i feel like crying
i gave myself an eating disorder, never told anyone, and now i'm going through recovery also not telling anyone
recovery has had such high ups and such low downs (today was a low). and since i haven't told anyone, all my family sees is me gaining 40+ pounds, and i know they're judging. my mom had an eating disorder for 10 years and the fact that she's stayed silent and even made a comment about my weight and eating is just so .. disappointing.
i feel like crying.
i have no one.
i'm out of the thick of it and i know it's just a bad day today, but kati bringing up the 3rd point makes my heart break because it's how it should be and so ideal but i'm just not letting myself have that
Hi, I was wondering if you could do a video
directed towards teens trying to seek help and how to get help on their own. You videos have saved my life in a literal way. Thank you so much!!
More stuff
The PTSD Sourcebook
Courage to Heal Workbook
The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook
Purge; The Rehan Diaries This book was so important for me because it's the only book I've read that discusses unspecified ED'd. It's a memoir about the author's time in a rehab facility. TW This book is very honest. The author struggles with her illness until well after treatment.
The DBT Workbook (green)
Eating Disorders for Dummies was a big help to my family.
I’ve had anorexia for 29 years now; I’m currently 45. There is NO coverage for adequate eating disorder treatment available to someone like me who has been forced to go on medical disability due to this disorder. This illness has ruined every aspect of my life (no relationship, no meaningful job, osteoporosis, early-onset menopause, severe malnutrition…). I’m beyond sickened by the system in place to help those like me. We are really still in the dark ages of eating disorder treatment.
Thank you so much but I appreciate this video 😊
Thank you Kati!!
Hi Kati! Awesome video! Lately I have been having a lot of panic attacks at school and I was wondering if anyone had any advice? Thank you!
Tips for EDNOS with BULIMIC tendencies recorvery:
1. Everthing Kati said in this video! of course!
2.Eat like a healthy person every day, that willl help with that craving and also helps your metabolism! Be prepared for bloating at the beginning :/
3. All that binge food - don't have it at home! If you're lving alone only buy f.e. choclate in either small proportians or not at all - for people who don't live alone: Ask your parent/whoever to not buy much of it or store it out of your sight
4.Try to think: Stop! and actualy try to stop while binging - at the beginning, you will think this probably very late or afterwards but the more you train this the better you will get at stopping earlier in your binging or at some point you'll be able to stop yourself before and never ever think "oh well i already startet..." bc even if you purge afterwards, it'll be less
These things are helping me (but I'm also in therapy bc of PTBS) maybe they are helpful for you too
...sorry for my bad english its not my native language)
Thank you, your comment pointed a big problem in my eating disorder.... I finally understood what's wrong with me and how to fix it.
The novel "Wintergirls" opened my eyes to what I had become; what I still am - at 59 years old.
Man you are awesome .... love the videos!
Could you make a video on Hypochondria??! I haven't seen too many videos about that on youtube and the way you explain things is so helpful! Thanks xx
Is 'health anxiety' the same or a mild version of hypochondria? Any kinions know?
+Kati Morton can you talk about other eating disorders that aren't too well known?
@@katgolightly8816 do u have a disorder
I had bulimia for almost six years, (and before that other eating disorders). But I'm now 46 days into recovery, I'm really hoping I never slip back again
thank you kati very helpful
"Life Without Ed" is an awesome book too!
#KatiFAQ Hello Kati, I've been seeing my therapist for a little more than a month, but I don't... Is it normal for therapist to stay in silence for almost a minute (I've count it) or have to re-say the question many times because he is not sure how to say it?. I also feel kind of restricted because when I tell him something about my childhood that I think was a background for my mental illness, he just push it aside and I feel like it is not as important as I thought. What should I do, should I change for another therapist (he is a therepist in my college, he is an MA, LPC) or should I stay?
Thank you.
Yesterday,☺️I just discovered this video and I just realized that I had Bulimia Eating Disorder. And as a curious teenager I decided to search all this negative effects of my body. It was sad and I'm afraid that this would cause inflammation of my body😕
And I'm thankful of all her videos because I'm getting recovered to it😘❤
Hey Kati! I've always loved and enjoyed your videos. How are you doing?
Can you make a video on Bulimia I’m struggling and it’s taking over my life
can you do a video on the mental side effects of concussions? and maybe on L.E.N.S therapy? thanks!
Hi!! The link in the description for the workbook is no longer working. Where can I find the resource?
I was in the hospital last year today and all this and next week. nice to remember for some reason I am very sentimental of this ordeal
Please could you make a video (if you haven't already) about how to help a friend who has just lost a parent?
I've told my friends about it bit i will never tell my family. It's shameful and I don't want to disappoint them. Telling my friends about it made it a bit better. Even though i haven't purged for months, the voice of bulimia is still there.
I am recovering on my own. I wrote poems just to get my feelings out and tried to fix my relationship with food by eating freely.
i didnt even realize i had an eating disorder till today in class... my teacher suggested me to watch this
Hi Kati! Great video today but can you make more videos on depression... Thanks!
Two questions is it normal to have lost of energy ( includes: not wanting to work or go to school)and getting headaches. I have had headaches for about 2 wks and feeling dizzy? Also I really regret telling my mom and my friends now they don't leave me alone and have some privacy. Is it ok to feel like that and why don't they leave me alone.
#KatiFAQ I don't know if you've covered this before but I finally was able to get a therapy appointment scheduled but it's in a few months from now! How do I "hold on" until then and still be able to manage things like school? Being depressed I feel like I can barely do anything, so I was wondering if you knew some basic tips on how to not completely lose myself while I wait?
My body is eating myself.i don’t know what I even look like at a healthy weight.I can’t imagine
Try to sip on the like happy planet and naked smoothies throughout the day. And being water. ❤️ I'm trying too.
Is the workbook still available? The link is unavailable, and I can't find it on Google.
#KatiFAQ can you please do a video on Social Anxiety Disorder? I know you did one a while ago but can you please do another one. I have just been diagnosed with it and would love to know more. Thanks! X
I would like another video on social anxiety disorder as well. Maybe some tips for how to get out and engage in normal activities without being overwhelmed. Or any tips in general.
I don’t have a severe eating disorder but it’s gotten pretty bad lately and I’m only realizing now I’m so happy that I’m realizing now rather than later I was always aware but only finding out how dangerous it was,but I still don’t wanna tell anyone about it because my family would make a big deal about it and my friends would think I’m doing it for attention, All I wanna do is tell someone and for them to listen and understand without making a big deal about...
i thought i recovered already on my own last year, but my bulimic mindset is resurfacing and im throwing up again, i hope by the time i go back to this video i'd finally be okay
Hey I'm in a recovery right now and the most important thing about recovery is to understand that it's okay to eat and gain weight, because at the moment you're not yourself it's only your ed, and I always thought that I would love myself and be more confident when I'm going to be underweight but the truth is no I won't
I will be confident when I'm going to forgive and get myself back. About bulimia I know that the guilt is pressuring
but remember it doesn't matter if you binged or you just ate and now you're regretting it, the only way food has to go from is anus, not your mouth. I know that other people words doesn't really mean anything but keep in mind that you have to accept the fact that you will gain weight, even though it sounds horrific and you have to forgive your self and love yourself, YOU'RE the only person who can make recovery happen, other people are just a support💗💗 Keep going! I'm proud of you :)
I’m recovering but I’m scared of how big I’ll get and people are gonna be like “so you going back to old habits?”
Hey Kati, I have no idea if you will ever see this, but I have been struggling with bulimia on and off for the majority of 2020. I cant afford counseling and I've had to be admitted to the ER multiple times due to complications from the disorder. I was wondering if that free workbook you talked about in this video still exists? The link in the description is dead and I couldn't find any links to it on your website. I think it might be able to help me get started at beating this thing, because I obviously can't do it on my own for an extended period of time. Thank you!
I wish I had seen this video years ago! I somehow managed to recover from ed by myself but this would have helped me a lot! Especially the workbook part. By the way, I wanted to ask you (or anybody who would like to answer!) a thing... do you think it would be useful to see a therapist even after years of having "recovered"? I feel like I have never really fully recovered from my ed or self-harm, and I feel like it would maybe be useful? I don't know...
I think that even if you are considering that it could be helpful, then go! It can only help you grow more.good luck!!
If you can read Swedish, "Mattillåtet" by Gisela Van Der Ster is a really really good book to read. It has been really useful and when in doubt I just go back and reread the chapters I need and am unsure about.
hi kati could
you do a video on having a disability and a metal illness I struggle with cp and it's very difficult thankyou
Yes yes yes I loved this video I am to scared to tell anyone about my eating problem. I dont call it an disorder Because I am not diagnosed. I starve myself and just forget to eat I also binge from time to time I lost weight lately I hate it
For your eating disorder workbook, it said link not found when I clicked on it. Could you give me some help on finding it please? Thanks
Dear Kati,
I'm feeling like I want to cry or have a knot in my stomach quiet often recently. But I have nothing excapt things to be happy about and I'm doing great. So is this feeling a feeling of happiness? How do you recognise when that overwhelming feeling is just happiness and not something else? Please help.
Guys how did you make a plan? Can you help me out. I don’t know where to start. I can’t stomach food. Only water right now. How do I build my appetite up again? What worked for you guys? I really want to recover on my own I just dont know where to start.
#KatiFAQ Hi Kati, how can CBT help with anxiety if you can't link the anxious feelings with a negative thought pattern. A lot of times I just feel anxious for no reason.
Hi the free workbook isnt below the video can you tell me where it is? thanks
Can you do a video talking about Binge Eating Disorder? I have it and it makes me feel terrible every day, but the only time anyone mentions bingeing is in relation to bulimia or purging, which I have been able to keep myself from doing. It is hard to find information on this disorder, can you help?
Everything on the outside looks perfect. I go out of my way to make sure it stays that way. In the inside??? Well, no one will understand ..... Today a new beginning starts. Thank you for this video.
I'm pregnant and have had an issue with bulimia for 7 years. I'm a healthy weight now but I constantly slip back into it, randomely. It has caused rosacea on my cheeks, hair loss, chest pains. I want to stop. I'm finally ready to not even think of that as an option anymore. This is hard.
'the bulimia help method' by richard kerr is brilliant. they have a website and you can subscribe to them for personal support too. or you can buy the book and work through their best found recovery methods. its simple and logical and works inline with the UK NHS eating disorder service methods.
Can anybody tell me how much time it takes to perfect recovery.
I started recovery a few month ago (I still eat very little) and I gained all the weight back and my ed thoughts come back. it’s just a never ending circle. when is it my turn to be happy?
It is important to keep trying
#KATIFAQ can you do a video on getting over the fear of asking for help? I know you have a video on talking with your parents (which ive done) but i cant seem to bring myself to talk to a doctor about my anxiety and depression. It's honestly really terrifying and i feel like im never going to get over it. thanks xxx ps love the videos by the way!
It's so hard the fact I try to seek help on RUclips from people who had anorexia and they have this wonderful for body, when others like me gained the weight back and it went everywhere. To try to lose weight because either you gained a whole lot of you just feel unhealthy so you try to lose the weight. That leads to "diet." And etc it's so difficult to deal with when you are alone
trust me, beauty standards and impossible to active, I've been through an ED myself and I had a similar thought process as you, you might find this comment useless but I just want you to be aware. You are beautiful just the way you are, you have one life and its better to eat whatever you want and do whatever you want to, wasting your life starving yourself wont let you have fun in your life, I wish you the best of luck and after you read this comment, go treat yourself with a sweet snack 💖🥺
Is the workbook still available? The link is dead
Could you do a video on health anxiety?
+Kati Morton (Mental Health Vlogger) Awesome! I don't know if this will help or not but I feel like maybe, in my experience at least, that people with panic disorder and OCD are more likely to have health anxiety. Because of panic disorder with the racing heart and hyperventilating that we truly believe we have some kind of problem with our heart, etc., so we freak out over any physical problem we have. And OCD makes us obsess over it. However, I do know someone who has health anxiety not because of panic attacks or OCD but because of being wrongfully diagnosed with cancer a couple years ago. Not sure if that helped or not but good luck on your research! Thanks for the reply xoxo.
#KatiFAQ Hey Kati, here's my question.I used to confide in my teacher about my abuse and self harm urges. She doesn't teach my class anymore and we never ever meet because I'm in a higher school now and whenever I try to contact her she does not talk to me. She says I should get out of these things and stop talking to her now. It's been almost a year and I cannot let go. I feel like giving up on life because I cannot live without her. I cannot study, I cannot write. She was the only person I trusted and now I have nobody. What should I do to show her that I really love and need her? I can't go on like this. :(
i am struggling so much. i’m 16 with anorexia and i never was very underweight but i’m being forced to gain and i hate my body so much i don’t think i can continue
how are u doing now
Dear Kati,
the link to the ED workbook ist not working.:( :(
I have emithophobia and afraid to eat would these tips work for me?
I’ve been struggling for years. If I really think about it it’s been like half my life. (I’ve commented on your videos before) I’ve been thinking about recovery lately. A lot of it has come from Alanis Morissette and her talking about her story. I want to keep my toxic family out of this and I’m almost 18 so hopefully when i go on my own I can cut them out and get the help I know I need, but still am very unsure I deserve.
you deserve to recover, I hope you did! saw this comment was from 3 years ago, so i wanted to check in. hope all went well for you!
I can't keep eating without an anxiety, or and urge to purge it out...what can i do?
I love you Kati! I've been watching your videos every night for a month and for some reason they always make me cry. But I usually feel better afterwards! I've been struggling with depression, self harm and bulimia (all self diagnosed) and I don't want to ask for help because I'm not 100%
sure whether I'm just making my problems up or not... Plus I really don't want my parents finding out - this isn't really a question but just seeing if anyone can relate I guess?
+Sara Simpson Hi Sara. I can relate to the whole not knowing wether it's really a problem and not wanting people (parents) to find out. But I think - and this may sound harsh - that part of this is just an excuse because we are scared of what might happen if we decide to reach out. Because if we do, things are gonna change. And they don't always change the way we want them to, it can make us feel vulnerable. But I'd say that in the end, we are always better off than when we keep struggling in secret.
If you selfharm, then that's always a problem. There's no line there, no "I only do it once a month/I only do it a little bit". If you do it and it causes you pain (physically and/or mentally) then you deserve to get better. You are not making you problems up! Why would you do that and how would that even work?
Anyways, I really hope that you find the support you need and can overcome this! Sending some love and virtual hugs from Germany :-)
I can totally relate! I'm pretty bad lately to the point that I don't even leave my bed anymore at all and I also kinda dropped out of school. Even though I'm getting worse and worse , I really don't wanna talk to anyone. I just can't talk to anyone. I could never imagine actually reaching out for help. I never asked for help and it's just I'm just weird I guess? I don't want anyone to know what it looks like in my mind? I also think I've got depression but I guess it started in my early childhood already? So yea also got a lot of stuff going on. So yea I can totally relate to you!
+imaginareality thank you so much for replying - you don't know how much better just that has made me feel. And you're right - I'm terrified that things are going to change and that people will judge me. And in a weird way I do feel like my self harm isn't enough... Anyway thanks so much for replying and hugs back! You may have just got me one step closer to asking for help 💩💩 Would be better if my parents didn't have to find out about it though 😬😬
+katharina kretschmer thank you for replying! I feel the same way - the only thing that keeps me getting out of bed is having quite strict parents and as I don't really want them to know I drag my self up. Altough I personally can't give you any advice it's strangely always nice to know someone's in the same boat and I definitely want you to feel better soon 😘
+fea alei thanks so much for replying - honestly your the advice was quite hard to read because I've been trying to tell my self I can get through this my self or at least hold on until I'm out of school like you so my parents don't have to know - but it's fucking hard (sorry) 😭. I'm tired constantly (like you), I feel hopeless, like nothing will ever get better and what's the point anyway if I'm just going to die in the end, and I hate myself and eugh sorry to bore you with a big list. Nevertheless, some part of me knows what you're saying is true and I need to ask for help (random question... Do you ever feel like there's two parts of you? - a kind of 'good' part and a 'bad' part - it's not like I have voices in my head but when the 'bad' part takes over is when the low times hit)
The link to the eating disorder workbook doesn't work :(
Hello it's been 15 years since I have had an eating disorder but my body isn't recovering due to my thyroid. As a a teenager I was very obese but went on a diet when I was 21 and got obsessed with losing too much weight which led to anorexia and bulimia. Fast forward 15 years later I don't have any eating disorders now but the body feels like it's starving even though I eat plenty of food. I take medication for my underactive thyroid but it's not helping. It's been really frustrating for 15 years. I have recovered mentally from my eating disorder but the body keeps going backwards and now my metabolism is out of whack and I'm always hungry. I live in Australia and no doctors understand why I feel like I’m starving all the time.
(Not a joke) any advice for someone who has a fear of doctors, medicine, and professional healthcare in general?
i have been curious about this for some time, what happens when someone who have an eating disorder end up in hospital, maybe he/she broke her leg and need a cast, the doctor found out he/she have an eating disorder and have been under-nutrition for sometime , what will happen? do the get send to see the therapist first or do they get send to see the dietitian first? Me and my friends are discussing this during lunchtime and they think that force feeding is the best immediate action and after being nutritionally stable then send the patient to the therapist, i think that that will just cause more harm than good
Maybe it would depend on what the person's electrolytes were, how 'off' they were, if the broken bone was maybe caused by the malnutrition. I'm a nursing student, so I definitely don't know everything- but if the patient is physically unstable and they are in my care, we HAVE to treat the physical problems (unless you refuse or leave against medical advice). If that was my patient and the doctor ordered a feeding tube, I would be calling for a psych consult, maybe even a child life specialist if it was a young teen to help me explain things so the process wouldn't be traumatic. Hospitals also have therapists on call 24/7, but they aren't long term therapists- more like they assess the patient then give the medical team their recommendations. Hope this helps some! It is an interesting question!
+K Golight it is very insightful, thank you. i am in a diploma course that combined food science and nutrition. my lecturer is more focus on disease like liver, renal failure, than on eating disorder. so i don't really get to learn how eating disorder is handled in the hospital
I don’t know if I’m ready because it’s hard. And I don’t have any support other than my best friend but she lives across the country. (Don’t get me wrong she’s helped immensely by being an outlet of that makes sense). I don’t want to tell my family because I they will guilt trip me n it’s a whole other thing. All my mental issues all have a sort of snowball effect.
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+Kati Morton (Mental Health Vlogger) thank you Kati that's fantastic advice X