Posted one year ago
HI and welcome and it is good to see you using this online community. I am the administrator for this site but my driver for this has been my experience when my daughter was first diagnosed, I felt very isolated and worried and struggled to find any information.
Please do have a look through the articles on the parent and carers homepage as the more that you understand about the illness the better. My daughter has now had anorexia for 6 years however I kept learning more as I researched and complied the information pages. Treading on eggshells is such a true phrase; it is difficult to know how to respond to the sunshine and showers. Sometimes it seems as if your daughter has been abducted and replaced with someone that you just cant recognise. From conversations that I have had with my daughter throughout her illness it seems that when her behaviour was erratic, hurtful and unpredictable were the times when she felt most frightened. Your daughter will probably be feeling worried or frightened about something, that something is not always discoverable, sometimes it is just a low mood, sometimes it is their thoughts and at other times it may l be something more tangible.
My daughter eventually lets me in to appointments sometimes but you can ask her to give the nhs to share their findings with you. But I am sorry if she is at the beginning of the illness she may be more secretive, she may lie and hide food etc. It seems crazy that this is your daughter doing this, but the sooner that you understand the course that the illness can take the better for you. And please keep posting on here.
Your post was not a ramble at all, there is a lot to say, it is a complex illness.