Let's talk about force-feeding. Unless you feel pressured - I mean, I can't MAKE you read this, you have free will, you can stop reading this right now. Don't read this! Stop reading!
Sorry.
I asked a therapist yesterday whether she had heard of the Maudsley approach. Two beats.
"Isn't that force feeding?"
Grr.
We have got to change the linguistics of eating disorders.
1) "eating disorders" will now be called "not-eating disorders."
2) "anorexia" will now be referred to as "malnutrition"
3) "bulimia" has a new name: "nutrition loss"
4) "refusal to maintain healthy weight" will be correctly labelled as "inability to self-nourish"
5) No one will be allowed to say "environment" without specifying that this includes dieting, prenatal nutrition, and inappropriate athletics.
6) Asthma medicine will now be "force-breathing" and insulin relabelled: Forced Metabolism."
7)
Inpatient treatment will now be called "force feeding." 8) And feeding your children, especially when the child is inclined not to, has a new name: "good parenting."
Let's talk about force-feeding. Unless you feel pressured - I mean, I can't MAKE you read this, you have free will, you can stop reading this right now. Don't read this! Stop reading!
Sorry.
I asked a therapist yesterday whether she had heard of the Maudsley approach. Two beats.
"Isn't that force feeding?"
Grr.
We have got to change the linguistics of eating disorders.
1) "eating disorders" will now be called "not-eating disorders."
2) "anorexia" will now be referred to as "malnutrition"
3) "bulimia" has a new name: "nutrition loss"
4) "refusal to maintain healthy weight" will be correctly labelled as "inability to self-nourish"
5) No one will be allowed to say "environment" without specifying that this includes dieting, prenatal nutrition, and inappropriate athletics.
8) And feeding your children, especially when the child is inclined not to, has a new name: "good parenting."