Advice for Parents by Doris Smeltzer: A teen's instructions to parents

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Advice for Parents by Doris Smeltzer: A teen's instructions to parents

Thanks to MEDA's recent newsletter, I was led to a blog post on the Children's Hospital Boston Pediatric Health site. It was written by a teenager who has healed from an eating disorder and wanted to share what she wished her parents had known about EDs. For this young woman "It was never about weight" or bad body image but instead about having one thing in her life over which she had complete control. She, like so many others, used it as a coping mechanism in response to the other pro

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Tags: Eating Disorder, Disease and Condition, Healthcare, Hospital, Parenting, Children's Health, Hospitals, Children's Hospital Boston