I've just had a conversation with my GP about my 15-year-old daughter, and to be honest it's the second time I have tried and I'm feeling a bit upset and fobbed off. I'm really worried about her eating. She binges on cakes, sweets, cheese strings - all the processed crap. She buys it, sneaks it, hides it in her room. She's got all sorts of food in her room, all over the floor. It seems to have just escalated from normal teenage behaviour to hoarding and binging. She doesn't purge. I'm just really worried about her.
I've spoken to the doctor and kind of been fobbed off a little bit, really. They said to get in touch with some local teenage mental health services and that there must be an underlying problem if that she's unhappy about something. I don't know what because she seems quite a happy person, but she's recently been more angry, especially with me. But again, what's normal teenage behaviour and what isn't? Has anyone else gone through this? Because the doctor said there's a lot of support for children who have 'eating disorders', i.e. they don't eat, but there isn't much support for children who kind of overeat or binge eat. Surely this is also an eating disorder??
He's suggested that she speaks to the school nurse, so I'm going to talk to her about that. But has anyone got any ideas or suggestions or anything that they've gone through because it's not healthy to have this habit and she's put on about two stone. I try not to talk to her about weight, I talk to her about health. Can anyone give me any advice or help, or been through this? I don't want to overdramatise this, but I also don't want to minimise it! Thanks.