Top Highlights

• Anorexics almost always believe they take up more space than they do.
• will, of making my daughter sicker with my control over her actions. They call me mechanistic and cruel.
• Some inner voice, which becomes their friend, praises their discipline and
• The professional will listen to‚ and inexplicably believe‚ what your daughter tells him. He will note on the chart, as if based in reality, what she says she ate that day and for the past week. With any teenager this is an iffy strategy. For an anorexic it is comically futile. Anorexics almost never believe they are anorexic.
• Asking a teenager the day of the week is unreliable. Asking anorexics how much they have eaten, or how they feel, or whether they have conflicts with their mother is, well, silly.