Inpatient admission

[elderberrysmell]

My son has been referred to an eating disorder clinic as an inpatient. It is early in the referral stage (the clinician said it would take about a week for everything to be organised), and I am not sure that he will even go (he hates change of any kind).

The inpatient treatment would be to help him break the cycle of bingeing and purging/restriction overexercising, so it would not be a long admission.

I am desperate for my son to receive some help for bulimia nervosa, and, to be honest, I do not feel he is safe living at home with his current behaviours.

Has anyone any advice about how I can support my son over the next week? He is very entrenched in his behaviour, and he is awaiting assessment for neurodiversity, so making a change will be tremendously stressful for him.

Thank you

Hi Can I suggest you post on this thread? I don’t have experience on inpatient. I hope your ds is getting on ok. www.mumsnet.com/talk/eating_disorders/5172972-support-thread-13-for-parents-of-young-people-with-an-eating-disorder?page=8&reply=143347288

Hi, I thought I would recommend a forum for carers called Feast who support people with eating disorders. It is a well established website which you might find helpful.

https://feast-ed.org/forum/?p=around-the-dinner-table-online-forum-for-parents-and-carers-136439

I have been to inpatient as an adult several times and am not sure what you want to know about that.

Be there for your son, compassionate and force for change until he recovers, be persistent and know that for most people things do indeed get better and especially if they are identified early. I wish you the best.