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the anorexia programme cant find a thread

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zippitippitoes · 02/10/2008 21:25

...is sanyone watching

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Piffle · 02/10/2008 21:55

or more normal would be to pinch a bit of that massive cake portion
Jesus my hollow legged 5ft8. 14 yr old son would struggle to eat that lunch out

I think at the clinic the food types are carefully controlled
A junk food lunch is heavy heavy heavy

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zippitippitoes · 02/10/2008 21:56

my dd1 friend did spend time in a unit after dd1 told e about it and asked me to meet her mum for coffee and HELP HER she was titally torn by betraying her friend

it still makes me cry now all the heart that went into that

i had to talk to someone i didnt know about their daughter

anfd at the same time talk about myself as i suggested someone in the local nhs that had helped me (for different reasons)

she still has problems but i occasionaly get a drunken i love you phone call

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SlartyBartFast · 02/10/2008 21:57

parents were blaming the big sister

understandable i spose

SlartyBartFast · 02/10/2008 21:58

understandable as an immediate reaction i mean

IllegallyBrunette · 02/10/2008 22:01

Did she just say 'chocolate is horrible' when her mum metioned dessert ??

I hope I am wrong, but I think she may end up right back where she started.

controlfreakinfreaky · 02/10/2008 22:17

she did.

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 03/10/2008 00:02

what channel was this on?

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zippitippitoes · 03/10/2008 00:05

channel 4

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SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 03/10/2008 00:19

thank you have found it on 4od.

nappyaddict · 03/10/2008 01:33

she is with a lot of older girls at the clinic though and probably wants to fit in so has copied them wearing make up.

i have been in tears? it is a shame she has just gone from one extreme to the other. now she is trying to eat everything put in front of her but it's still about control.

nappyaddict · 03/10/2008 01:40

when the mum was at the clinic waiting to take her home and was crying i did think why isnt your partner hugging you or something though

the mum sounds a bit in denial tbh. i hope she is right and it is a blip but i think she's a bit optimisitc.

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 03/10/2008 02:15

thats what i thought nappy. this is far from over that poor little girl. i hope i am wrong.

this programme has worried me a lot, i have a dd who has always been a poor eater. since birth. and has always been a low weight.

she knows what calories are that they will make you put on weight, but that you will become very sick if you dont get enough she also has 'good' foods and 'bad' foods . she has told me that she wants to be skinny but that is not why she doesnt eat. she is just not hungry.

she is obssesed with dancing. but thankfully i dont think that is to do with excerise. she just loves dancing and since going back has been putting a lot more of her focus onto her dancing than she has on food. she got really good after starting school and we thought our problems were over but she seems to be slowly going downhill again.

but she does exercise for the specific reason that is exercise .

so many points in that programme ring true to dd1. i am so worried that her eating troubles will develop into an ed

Corriewatcher · 03/10/2008 13:56

This programme is haunting me a bit too, ShesellsSeashells. Until recently, my DD (aged 5) was always a poor eater and around the second percentile on the growth charts. Things have got better in the past few months though.

The programme made me think about how all the many messages we get from the media and elsewhere about food (eat your 5 a day, cut down junk etc), whilst perfectly sensible for most of us, could be taken to dangerous extremes by those too young to understand or of a certain disposition. I'll certainly be keeping a careful eye on what magazines and TV progs DD sees as she grows up - I don't think I'll be letting her watch America's Greatest Losers!

lulumama · 03/10/2008 14:00

the programme was very superficial, there was no deliving into her background or her family life, it just seemed very glib in parts.
didn;t say anything new, except that younger and younger children are suffering with eating disorders.

southeastastra · 03/10/2008 14:05

i do sort of blame the healthy eating brigade for this, i know it's a complex issue but my ds(7) was moaning that he's fat the other day. he was getting quite distressed about it. where are these messages coming from?

LostGirl · 03/10/2008 14:48

The media is full of these messages, look at the front covers of magazines in the shops, one after the other all have headlines about celebrities gaining weight, or having cellulite and then another headline detailing some lastest diet where you can lose half a stone in two weeks. Also, how many parents talk about feeling fat, needing to lose weight and count calories? Children these days are growing up surrounded by all of this which surely can't help.

lizziemun · 03/10/2008 14:51

Nappy

The clinic was set up for older children it has only been in the last couple of years have they been getting in younger children (BTW She is not the youngest child they have had in.)

lazymumofteenagesons · 03/10/2008 15:41

I wonder what happened to her. She seemed to be eating just in order to get out of clinic. They don't seem to have got to the bottom of the problem at all. I suspect it will start allover againg once she has been out for a while.

Very sad. Mu8ch deeper issues must exist here than we have been shown.

nappyaddict · 03/10/2008 16:51

lizzie - sorry not sure what relevance that has to what i posted?

MummyPenguin · 04/10/2008 17:49

I'm glad a few of you commented on the mascara, but what about the studded collar? I didn't watch this to the end (kept falling asleep) but I found it quite odd, there was something a bit un-nerving about the girl, her Mum and the whole thing really. I couldn't help thinking that it was a bit ironic that she's supposed to be anorexic yet she eats more than I possibly could, and could give most men a run for their money!! I know the clinic encourage them to eat like that, but what then? You know, will they end up getting fat if they keep eating like that? I just found it all a little odd.

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