- Joined
- Jul 29, 2016
*sits in psychologist armchair*You can't cure an obsession with one's subjective feefees by obsessing over one's subjective feefees. She needed hard labor, which for a 14-year-old bughiver realistically would've been some sports or faux-military summer boot camp (with mandatory cooking and cleaning after oneself, no servants). That would've cured both the ED and the poonery.
If you put her in a summer camp where she had to cook her own food she just wouldn’t eat any food, and a lot of anachans spend an excessive amount of time exercising to burn what little calories she did eat anyway. She needed a stint in eating disorder inpatient followed by a meal plan, a responsible adult willing to make sure she actually ate the food from the meal plan, and a therapist to help her learn healthier coping mechanisms for the negative feelings resulting from eating. And I mean a proper therapist, not a “gender affirming” groomer one.
Anorexia is basically an offshoot of OCD where they fixate on their weight and caloric intake specifically instead of washing their hands exactly 127 times per day, if you don’t get to the bottom of their compulsive thought process and teach them how to deal with that then they’ll just return to it the moment nobody is actively monitoring them a là Eugenia Cooney or every junkie that’s ever relapsed straight out of court ordered rehab. They have to actively want to get better. And part of that getting better may very well involve going outside and touching grass instead of consooming gender brainrot via the internet but a girl this visibly distressed needs to lay that groundwork in a psych ward first.
I’m not even surprised that didn’t happen since NHS mental health services are just as fucked as the rest of it, they’re alright at acute stuff but if you’re not imminently about to off yourself or actively having a schizo episode enjoy your SSRI script and 2+ year waitlist for 6 therapy sessions. No wonder this poor kid got tossed between the ED and gender groomer departments like a frisbee.