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Quick article from Pavlina Dunham!
Below is a quick article that Pavlina, one of our group members, submitted about eating disorders if you're suffering from an eating disorder, accept help. Call the National Eating Disorders Association for help and support. Call the number 1-800-931-2237.
Lessons Learned from the Research
Submitted by Pavlina Dunham (Troop 1403)
Primary Source: Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder by James Lock MD PhD and Daniel Le Grange PhD, Guilford Press, 2015
* People with eating disorders are often afraid to ask for help. Some people have low self-esteem and they simply don’t feel that they deserve any help.
* Eating disorders are much more common in teenage girls but many boys have them also. For this Girl Scout project we are focusing on girls.
* Eating disorders will only get worse without treatment and the physical and emotional damage can be severe. The sooner you start to help a loved one, the better their chances of recovery.
* If you want to talk to someone about her eating disorder, you should focus on her feelings and your relationship with her, not on the weight or the food. Share your memories of a specific time when you felt concerned about her health, but be respectful of her privacy.
* Do not comment on how she looks because she is already hyper-aware of her body.
* Be very selective about taking your daughter or friend grocery shopping or clothes shopping.
* Parents and friends should promote self-esteem in the person through intellectual, athletic, and social activities. Encourage her to find healthy ways to manage unpleasant feelings such as stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, or self hatred. Indoor and outdoor play is important.
* Limit the influence of television, movies, fashion magazines and online videos, which play up looks as all that matters in a likable person. Emphasize intelligence, personality and good deeds as more important than appearance.
Only a few treatments for adolescents with anorexia have been studied using valid scientific methods. Family based therapy, in use since the 1970s, emphasizes the family system as a potential solution for eating disorders in a teenager. Six randomized clinical trials found Family based therapy worked as well or better than cognitive behavioral therapy, which is regular visits with a trained therapist. Many families combine both approaches. Family based therapy is likely to be important for bulimia and binge eating as well.
Unfortunately some people with anorexia or bulimia become critically ill enough to require treatment in a clinic or hospital. There are three forms this can take, depending on how serious their condition is: as a day patient who goes home at night, as an in-patient who has to stay overnight for a time, or residential treatment which means the person lives away from home during treatment.
Eating disorders are complex illnesses and may require professional help from psychotherapists, doctors and nutritionists. The best results are when families establish a skilled team that pulls for the teen in different ways while also creating a supportive environment at home.
Submitted by Pavlina Dunham (Troop 1403)
Primary Source: Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder by James Lock MD PhD and Daniel Le Grange PhD, Guilford Press, 2015
* People with eating disorders are often afraid to ask for help. Some people have low self-esteem and they simply don’t feel that they deserve any help.
* Eating disorders are much more common in teenage girls but many boys have them also. For this Girl Scout project we are focusing on girls.
* Eating disorders will only get worse without treatment and the physical and emotional damage can be severe. The sooner you start to help a loved one, the better their chances of recovery.
* If you want to talk to someone about her eating disorder, you should focus on her feelings and your relationship with her, not on the weight or the food. Share your memories of a specific time when you felt concerned about her health, but be respectful of her privacy.
* Do not comment on how she looks because she is already hyper-aware of her body.
* Be very selective about taking your daughter or friend grocery shopping or clothes shopping.
* Parents and friends should promote self-esteem in the person through intellectual, athletic, and social activities. Encourage her to find healthy ways to manage unpleasant feelings such as stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, or self hatred. Indoor and outdoor play is important.
* Limit the influence of television, movies, fashion magazines and online videos, which play up looks as all that matters in a likable person. Emphasize intelligence, personality and good deeds as more important than appearance.
Only a few treatments for adolescents with anorexia have been studied using valid scientific methods. Family based therapy, in use since the 1970s, emphasizes the family system as a potential solution for eating disorders in a teenager. Six randomized clinical trials found Family based therapy worked as well or better than cognitive behavioral therapy, which is regular visits with a trained therapist. Many families combine both approaches. Family based therapy is likely to be important for bulimia and binge eating as well.
Unfortunately some people with anorexia or bulimia become critically ill enough to require treatment in a clinic or hospital. There are three forms this can take, depending on how serious their condition is: as a day patient who goes home at night, as an in-patient who has to stay overnight for a time, or residential treatment which means the person lives away from home during treatment.
Eating disorders are complex illnesses and may require professional help from psychotherapists, doctors and nutritionists. The best results are when families establish a skilled team that pulls for the teen in different ways while also creating a supportive environment at home.
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