I have heard from many parents that they do not have a parenting problem until it comes to eating disorders. There's something about the anorexia that can intimidate the strongest parents.
Why is this so? Part of this is parents are so afraid of doing wrong thing that makes them virtually powerless. Colors wrong answer can mean the difference between life and death for their son or daughter. "What if I say something and it makes it worse? What if I do something, and then she refuses to eat ?"
I have seen the strongest dad reduced to tears because it is what your daughter said to them, while "under the influence" of eating disorders. Parents do not know how to handle this child who was always easygoing.
Description of the common children with eating disorders is that they are low maintenance kid who never caused problem.Način you've always parented this child no longer works. This child becomes a parent you are now instead of the one you had.
She'll be back, but it will take. It is still there, longing to be free from the slavery of eating disorders. This will cause all of you thought he knew his daughter, and parenting.
It is still your daughter, even in this altered state of consciousness, you know her best. As a family we will circle the wagons and figure out. All will help her to recover and be stronger for it.
