Posted by iris2 on October 3, 2004, at 20:02:48
In reply to Re: Thanks for the advice » bridgey1128, posted by headachequeen on October 3, 2004, at 16:15:33
I see a trend here. It seems that many of us think that this teen has to work on self image and not worry so much about her weight. I am not there observing first hand but for those of us that have exerienced eating disorders first hand it appears that some of us think the implications of stressing this little extra weight instead of real life issues like self esteem is not the correct treatment for either an overweight person and/or a person with eating disorder problems.
If she really has an eating disorder loosing all the weight in the world will not make her happy or have a good body image.
I have not heard of taking Topamax as a first defense against eating disorders. But then again I am an old timer and have not kept up with eating disorder treatments.
What does anyone else think?
I have seen my best friend run her teen to a pdoc she knew would provide meds for her because she decided her daughter had ADHD only after seeing a pamphlet for Strattera in the pdocs office. My friend did not like this pdoc but took her daughter there anyway because she new she would just give her meds without any treatment or evaluation and she did. My friend used to think her daughter had OCD. I talked her out of that one. The girl seems to have some problems but they involve attention getting mostly as I have observed. She was supposed to take her to a therapist after the pdoc for eveluation but decided she did not want to. She takes medication for everything herself. As a kid I thought if something is wrong just go to the doctor(God) and it will be fixed. As we grow up we see that "God" cannot cure what ails us a lot of the time so we had better take care of what we have as best we can. Some people take medicine so lightly. Medicines are poisons to our systems. For all the good some of them do they all do some harm. People need to remember this and not take drugs so lightly. If I could find a way to not be so depressed and function without meds believe me I would. God knows all the medications I have taken and what the long term effects on my liver and the rest of my body are!
Irene
Sorry about the rambling but this hit me so close to home because of my friend and her attitude about taking drugs.
irene
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