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Around The Dinner Table (ATDT for short) forums is an online community for parents whose children have an eating disorder. It is the official forum of the F.E.A.S.T. organization (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders), which focuses on the parents' role in the treatment of an eating disorder. The likes are you've already guessed that the forum is a complete shitshow of parents who think they know how to treat their child better than medical practitioners simply because they happen to have conceived said child. The site promotes the 'Maudsley method' (Family-Based Treatment or FBT) of treating eating disorders.
Sounds good in theory, right? Well, in practice, as demonstrated by the forums, this usually leads to parents using various methods to force food down their child's throat while denying that they themselves could be making thins worse, such as hiding enormous amounts of pure oil into your child's food, making the child eat until their stomach is so full it hurts, and treating the illness like some sort of a demon possessing your child.
http://www.aroundthedinnertable.org/post/my-husband-is-so-proud-of-himself-8436146#gsc.tab=0
Lying about the content of food to your teenage child? No wonder therapy is needed to restore normal family relationships after "refeeding". Some parents have also resorted to removing the door of their child's room to give them zero privacy, and then demanding access to their adult child's medical information when the child, not surprisingly traumatized by this 'intervention', tries to get her independence back.
http://www.aroundthedinnertable.org...lease-to-discuss-her-health-8343611#gsc.tab=0
Here they confess to things like going through the trash bin for dirty tampons because they didn't believe when their daughter told she hadn't lost her period. They seem to be utterly clueless about the treatment of mental illnesses, and are surprised when weight gain doesn't fix all the problems.
They have their own little abbreviations for family members; d is daughter, h is husband and s is son as if the word 'son' was too long to type out.
ATDT is also a common topic on the myproana.com forums, where some of the ATDT parents also lurk to check if their child is posting there. MPA members have made numerous troll accounts on ATDT, and some have even found their own parents on the forum.
http://www.feast-ed.org/?page=FBT_MaudsleyApproach
The treatment consists of three phases; first the parents are supposed to take all control of what the patient eats. In the second phase the patient is slowly given back control over their food intake, and in the third phase normal family relations are restored with the help of a therapist.
The treatment consists of three phases; first the parents are supposed to take all control of what the patient eats. In the second phase the patient is slowly given back control over their food intake, and in the third phase normal family relations are restored with the help of a therapist.
Sounds good in theory, right? Well, in practice, as demonstrated by the forums, this usually leads to parents using various methods to force food down their child's throat while denying that they themselves could be making thins worse, such as hiding enormous amounts of pure oil into your child's food, making the child eat until their stomach is so full it hurts, and treating the illness like some sort of a demon possessing your child.
http://www.aroundthedinnertable.org/post/my-husband-is-so-proud-of-himself-8436146#gsc.tab=0
Lying about the content of food to your teenage child? No wonder therapy is needed to restore normal family relationships after "refeeding". Some parents have also resorted to removing the door of their child's room to give them zero privacy, and then demanding access to their adult child's medical information when the child, not surprisingly traumatized by this 'intervention', tries to get her independence back.
http://www.aroundthedinnertable.org...lease-to-discuss-her-health-8343611#gsc.tab=0
Here they confess to things like going through the trash bin for dirty tampons because they didn't believe when their daughter told she hadn't lost her period. They seem to be utterly clueless about the treatment of mental illnesses, and are surprised when weight gain doesn't fix all the problems.
They have their own little abbreviations for family members; d is daughter, h is husband and s is son as if the word 'son' was too long to type out.
ATDT is also a common topic on the myproana.com forums, where some of the ATDT parents also lurk to check if their child is posting there. MPA members have made numerous troll accounts on ATDT, and some have even found their own parents on the forum.
