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This is interesting from another angle. I'm not sure if it has been mentioned in the comments but I will go ahead and present it anyways. I was diagnosed with
by creep 9y ago
This is interesting from another angle. I'm not sure if it has been mentioned in the comments but I will go ahead and present it anyways.
I was diagnosed with anorexia when I was 14. The physical, medical care that I received at my local children's hospital was alright, and I have no comparison of course. I was refed, kept in bed, and slowly gained weight to a healthy level. However, the psychological treatment was abhorrent. I was sent to an outpatient eating disorder program, which treated both children and adults, at the same hospital. I came from that place at a healthy weight, but with the same ideas about food that I'd always had up to that point.
I no longer have an overt eating disorder, but of course they say with these things anorexics are always in recovery. However, it took me four years to learn healthy eating habits on my own. I did not have external help for this at all. It took me four years to teach myself how to eat. I still look back on the eating disorder program with distaste and distrust for the medical system.
My point is, it was very obvious to me that my psychological care was not up-to-par, but I still don't know how my medical treatment was-- that is, fixing the parts of my physical body that I'd damaged with malnutrition. Most people think of psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists in terms of their skill and efficacy. But medical doctors are mostly assumed to be equally proficient. I am not sure what can be done about this particular assumption, but it is very real and can be life-threatening.