Identifying Suspicions About Your Child’s Anorexia: Tips from Parents

Parents of anorexic adolescent girls often say they wished they had acted on their instincts about their daughter’s eating behavior. An inner feeling told them that something was not quite right, but they were not sure if a real problem existed.

These tips and insights are from some of those parents:

1. You may feel like you are imagining there is a problem, but pay attention to those feelings. It is better to know there is a problem so you can do something about it than to pretend everything is fine. You need to help your daughter early on; it can save her a lot of heartaches later in life to get treatment when you first suspect she has an eating disorder.

2. Instead of simply feeling bad for your child, and letting the problem escalate, accept that you - as a loving parent - cannot fix the situation. The way to really help your daughter is to confront the issue and get the help that works for her and your entire family.

3. Do not believe your daughter’s argument that she will be better if you let her go it alone. Visit an eating disorder specialist in London and keep an open mind.

4. Your daughter needs you to support her. That might mean ‘tough love,’ and you dishing up food for her and allowing fewer choices.

5. Watch your daughter’s eating behaviors. Consider her unusual eating behaviors as an illness. Work with her like she is a diabetic needing insulin, and you must control what she eats, so she avoids experiencing shock or coma. Food is your daughter’s medicine.

6. In your child’s head, there is chaos going on. She doesn’t want it to be like that, but nonetheless, it is happening. Accepting that the chaos is there helps you see the need for you to take charge sometimes. It will make a difference when you consider the chaos that is happening in your child’s mind. She needs your loving, non-judgmental support, just as much as she needs an anorexia nervosa treatment.

We hope that these tips and insights will help you handle the situation more effectively and allow you to get your daughter on the road to recovery as quickly as possible. 

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