How Would You Treat Somebody Who Has Anorexia?

How would you treat somebody who has anorexia? Anorexics can be treated with cognitive behavioral therapy and renourishment. I'd treat anorexics with cognitive behavioral therapy and at the same time re-nourishing...

I'd treat anorexics with cognitive behavioral therapy and at the same time re-nourishing them is the big issue. With anorexia, they suffer an 85% loss of their normal body weight. So, when their weight gets that low, they are unable to think and concentrate. So the re-nourishment process is extremely important with the anorexic because it's difficult for them to do therapy when they can't think. So that's why treatment is so important for anorexic women that they are being re-nourished, and then we're able to do therapy. They have a lot of the emotional symptoms of bulimic women.

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