Eating Disorders

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24, 2006 'Policy' denies nutrients to 1,000 Florida children By CAROL MARBIN MILLER Miami Herald More than a thousand severely disabled or chronically ill children who relied on state dollars for life-sustaining nutritional supplements have been cut off from Florida's Medicaid program, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings to ...

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The institute, which does not believe that anorexia nervosa stems from a mental health problem, is at odds with most of the world's anorexia experts.

Instead, its doctors believe that the disorder, which claims the life of one in five sufferers, develops as a girl diets and then gets pleasure from losing weight and exercising too much.

The starvation then triggers the psychological problems such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression.

The doctors say that if they teach the girls how to eat again, the mental symptoms will disappear.

The standard care is to treat anorexia as a psychiatric disorder, and this usually includes antidepressants.

Desperately trying to save the lives of their daughters, 19 Australian families have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to have them treated at the institute in Stockholm in the past few years.

Their daughters were treated there at a cost of $1000 a day as an outpatient, or $2000 as an inpatient.

Of these Australian patients, 10 have recovered, two have not and the rest are continuing treatment.

The institute has a 75 per cent success rate after 14 months with all its patients, according to the results of a small trial published in scientific literature.

As part of its treatment, a Mandometer, a disc-like weighing scale with a small computer attached to it, tells each patient how much they should eat and at what speed.

After eating, the patients are put into a warm room.

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...ba href=/eating disorder/a/b and selective mutism, the latter a little-known phobic condition whereby fear sometimes inhibits her ability to speak.

Occasionally, the load weighs on her lean shoulders.The village knows Lindsey's life centers on her health.

They've seen her get sick from the chemotherapy that fights her cancer, and they've visited her in the hospital, her home away from home.

They've watched her struggle to talk, only to bury her head in her mom's shoulder.Enough, Lindsey has thought.

Enough.She's been tired of the side effects of the chemo, tired of the struggle to eat a simple salad, tired of the freaky disorder that robs her words.The village has seen Lindsey rally, too.Lindsey is no quitter.

Not at all.

She might get down, her mom says, but she never stays there, though she knows it will be five years before the doctors will know for sure whether she's beaten off the cancer.Though she has the strength to attend only two classes a day at school, Lindsey doesn't miss those two classes before she limps out to her car, drives herself home and falls into bed.Lindsey's village includes Smyrna High School, where she is a junior.

One recent day at school, Lindsey whispered to a friend that she would like to go to the prom.

It would be Lindsey's first prom, the junior-senior prom.But she didn't want her hardworking mom and dad to know of her desire.

They would worry about her night out and the cost.

Since Lindsey's been sick, she knows that even the cost of a corsage could strai...