Dr. Susan, Can My Daughter be Helped?
Dear Dr. Susan: I have a 14-year-old daughter, Carol Anne, who self-satisfies with food and who has no concept of her body image. When another student at her school asked her if she was pregnant, she went onto her Facebook site and wrote how “hurt her feelings were that someone would say that to her” and then she accepted the responses (most of which were aimed at assuaging her hurt feelings) as permission to continue her same eating habits. When asked why she thought someone might “mistake her appearance for someone who was…Read more
