How do I handle a teenage girl with an eating disorder?
She refuses to eat anything whatsoever but yogurt. Since yesterday morning she's had 1 yogurt and haven't ate anything since. I'm worried 🥺
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Ask her about details. Like why is she doing it? Does she have a goal weight? What will she do if she reaches that weight?
Also try to encourage other foods as well even if it is not much. Cheese is a good one and has keep humanity alive for thousands of years. Maybe she is only doing a dairy thing after all.
Also make sure to gage how they view their body image. And try to set challenges for them. Like have them find plus size or disabled or other unconventional type models.
Surround them with body positivity. And get them a support network. Of their own peers as they will be most effective but also therapy might help as well.
In the mind of someone with an eating disorder is a fear and shame of not liking your physical form. So having others accept her as is is a way to fight it. And you have to keep it up until they can see it in themselves.
But a long hard road there:(
Also try to encourage other foods as well even if it is not much. Cheese is a good one and has keep humanity alive for thousands of years. Maybe she is only doing a dairy thing after all.
Also make sure to gage how they view their body image. And try to set challenges for them. Like have them find plus size or disabled or other unconventional type models.
Surround them with body positivity. And get them a support network. Of their own peers as they will be most effective but also therapy might help as well.
In the mind of someone with an eating disorder is a fear and shame of not liking your physical form. So having others accept her as is is a way to fight it. And you have to keep it up until they can see it in themselves.
But a long hard road there:(