Long term poster, NC, but I know all about pom bears and center parcs and t-rexing in supermarkets.
Posting for a friend who isn't on MN.
This friend, lets call her Judy, has three adult children from her first marriage; they have all moved out of the family home. She lives with her husband, who has four children from his first marriage, three are adults, and one is 16, and up to last summer ago was living with her mother. In order to go to a local college, the 16 year old moved in with her father and Judy.
The step daughter, lets call her Rosie, has been regularly throwing up after meals, and bingeing between meals. She's naturally very thin. When confronted about this she didn't deny it, but didn't want to do anything about it. With some convincing she went to a GP appointment with her father and Judy. They are currently waiting for Rosie to go to some counselling, but in the meantime she is continuing to binge and purge.
Judy has seen Rosie's facebook messages to her college friends; some seem to be telling her not to make herself sick, others seem to be claiming to do it to (not sure entirely on the details here - I told Judy I didn't think she should be reading her step daughter's private messages, but do believe it comes from a place of real concern.
Does anyone have any experience step-parenting a teenager, or supporting a teen with bulimia that I can pass to Judy and her husband? I think they're finding it hard as they've not had a big a part as they would have liked in raising Rosie (complicated story, Rosie's mother is very much a narcissist and was diagnosed with some sort of personality disorder, which resulted in some nasty problems around access/custody.)
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Asking4AFriend · 13/04/2016 12:45
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