About 4 months ago, I noticed that my teenage daughter was losing some weight, but only a little. As time progressed, she wouldn't stop losing weight, and she was a size 2. I started to worry about her and made sure that she ate dinner every day. However, she constantly made excuses for not eating, so we saw a therapist (this is about a month ago from now). In our second session, she admitted that she was anorexic. She now refuses to go back to the therapist. My question is this. I'm very worried about my daughter and her weight. Forcing her to eat would cause her to possibly develop bulimia and she would start to hate me, so how do I make sure that she eats?
You could try getting info on what being anorexic does to you and show it to her. Emphasize on not only how sick it makes you feel but LOOK as well. Show her how so many famous people who started off like her ended up deathly sick in the hospital.
Although it might seem hard not to, I don't think you should make a big deal about this towards her. Forcing her to stop would probably make her do it more. But she most likely won't be able to stop on her own. Maybe there's something more to it. Does she get alot of attention? Things like that.. maybe if you try spending alot of time with her and do things with her it will take her mind away from it. Keep her busy and watch her alot witout making it obvious. You should try letting her go to the therapist on her own if you haven't already. Let her talk to them in private about it and see if they can find out why without you being there, maybe she doesn't want you to know. There's a number of things that could be the reason so hopefully something helps her. Just make sure you get her some help before it's something she feels like she HAS to do, to pretty much live.
Try making new things for dinner or just snacks even if thats the least that she eats.
Good luck
=] Evy
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Thank you so much.
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