Anorexia update - D was weighed on Monday - no real weight gain (maybe a few ounces) but she's been eating 1800 - 2000 calories a day, and not purging. I'm going to need to push her calories up more. She was having a bad day that day - I spent a lot of time talking to the delusional eating disorder, and at one point actually said to her something like "you only see it that way because you have a mental illness!". It really wasn't as bad as it sounds , but it was blunt.
Yesterday, though, was a great day - D was upbeat and positive, had a big lunch out with me, and all during lunch she discussed her anorexia with me in a very insightful, mature, objective way. We talked about OCD and the biological studies related to it, the addictive nature of purging, etc., etc. She's such a fabulous kid.
