Great story by Roni Rabin in tomorrow's New York Times about family-based treatment for anorexia. Nice interviews with Rina Ranalli, whose daughter recovered using FBT; Dr. Daniel le Grange of the University of Chicago; and moi.
Change is coming. And it's about bloody well time.
Wow I am pleasantly surprised at the approach of dealing with anorexia in the story. There definitely needs to be a change in how society deals with it.
ReplyDeleteHarriet,
ReplyDeleteJust finished your book last night — in a one day, glued-to-the-page swoop.
It's a beautiful, painful, heart-wrenching, hopeful work!
I really appreciate your perspective on eating disorders, and that the illness is not the person. A very important distinction that I had lost, or perhaps never grasped, all these years.
I also appreciate your advocacy for health care that covers eating disorders and mental health issues.
Thank you for sharing your family's profound, life-changing, experience.
Thanks, Ashley, and Drew. I'm glad the book meant something to you. That's why I write. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd how NOT to do the family treatment:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1321719/Mother-girl-diet-age-two.html
Better for mum to stop stuffing her face, no?
Clair, What makes you think Mom is "stuffing her face"? Being fat does not equal "stuffing your face."
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