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(Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders)

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Frequently Asked Questions
Tips from the parents on the Around the Dinner Table online forum

  • How do I post messages?
  • Meal plans and recipes
  • Bulimia
  • Most popular conversations (includes recipes, member updates, refeeding advice)
  • Common abbreviations and terms used
  • Common phrases and inspirations
  • Choking phobia, fear of swallowing
  • Dealing with resistance to eating and recovery
  • Vegetarians, pseudo-vegetarians, and meatless re-feeding
  • Supporting siblings
  • Distractions during meals
  • Neurobiology of eating disorders
  • The "Magic Plate"
  • Non pharmaceutical supplements
  • Anorexia Nervosa triggered by strep infection (PANDAS)
  • Legally adult children
  • Off the C.U.F.F. book club discussions
  • How to measure orthostatic heart rate or blood pressure (hypotension)
  • Purging
  • Autism and anorexia
  • Glossary of terms and definitions
  • Body Dysmorphia
  • Re-feeding

Hall of Fame - posts everyone should read:

  • After a decade - lessons learned
  • On the power of parental confidence - and the negative placebo effect
  • Ruralmom's brochure for siblings
  • The special parenting style some families use during early recovery
  • "Mantras and More" a primer for friends and family helping with meal support
  • The psychological effects of malnutrition AND shared personality traits
  • Minnesota Starvation Study
  • Why weight restoration matters
  • Are there studies on length of time for return to "normal"?
  • Role of estrogen and hormone testing
  • Contesting insurance denials
  • Cheforexic's post on how a family can take a "Ghandi-like"  stance against "ED"
  • Falling apart after things start to get better: the PTSD of parents
  • Discussion of temperature and staying warm
  • Dr. O'Toole discusses ADD meds and eating disorder patients
  • "Pennysgirl" family's proactive stance with school during recovery
  • Maria's letter to relatives about diet talk during holiday meals
  • Cheforexic's classic: "What to ask a therapist"
  • "sc" describes to "clueless" how to plan for transition from inpatient to home
  • "Zeri" posts the classic recovery update at 6 months
  • A thread on male patients
  • When the illness and the treatment threaten the marriage and family
  • On adult patients and Family-Based Maudsley
  • Army dad describes his mission's success: a healthy teenager
  • Acronyms

    Want to add to, start, or suggest an FAQ? We need you! Please write to Info@FEAST-ED.org

    All advice should come from and reference ATDT input. The goal is to offer new users of the forum a way to find the most relevant information as easily as possible, and to allow members to point to the FAQs instead of repeating themselves. A one-sentence intro, and then bulleted list of advice, hyperlinked to a post, and/or quotes. 
  • (Last updated June 24, 2010)


    F.E.A.S.T. 
    (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders)

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