Did you know that 95 percent of eating disorder sufferers are between the ages of 12 and 26, and that anorexia is the third-most common chronic illness in adolescents? These statistics from the According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders are startling.
What’s more startling?
Up to 20 percent of people with anorexia — 85 to 90 percent of whom are girls and women — will die, making it the deadliest mental health condition, and one that disproportionately affects tweens and teens.
But there is hope.
A new method, the Maudsley method, helps aid parents once the child comes home from hospitalization. An area many say needed the education that was severely lacking at home.
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Do you or someone you know struggle with an eating disorder? Does this treatment work and have you heard of it?
