Vocabulary words for parents
These are my favorite vocabulary words for parents with eating disordered children:
Until they are well - and that takes nutrition, love, and time - we have to do the thinking for them.
- Alexithymia: an inability to describe or understand one's own emotions
- Anosognosic: unaware of and lacking insight into one's own illness
- Egosyntonic: symptoms of the illness are in harmony with or acceptable to the ill person
Until they are well - and that takes nutrition, love, and time - we have to do the thinking for them.
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