Eating Disorder Rehab/Psych Ward?
Question by Brittany: Eating Disorder Rehab/Psych Ward?
I’m writing a book about a seventeen year old gymnast who develops Anorexia Nervosa and needs treatment. How does the treatment for ED’s work? Do they go to a rehab center, psych ward, hospital? If it’s a combination of some which order & how long? For people who have experience: What is it like? Are you around people with other problems, or just ED’s? Are your meals planned for you, and do you eat in groups or with just a nurse? How often are weigh in’s? Do you have to reach a certain weight in order to be released? Are the nurses easy to trick? Basically, I would like all the information you have!(: Sorry this is so long/so many questions. I would just like this to be as accurate as possible. Thank you in advance. -Brittany
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Answer by Madaleine
In my area, the psych ward and ED treatment is in the same unit. Basically psych and ED share a lounge, hallways, and school. The ED patients rooms are always closest to the nurses station so they aren’t getting a lot of excersise walking from their rooms to anywhere. Most eds are in wheelchairs for the first 2-3 weeks of treatment b/c they’re underweight so doctors don’t want them walking. If an ed whose in a wheelchair walks more than a few steps they will be put on bed rest for the next day. They aren’t allowed to stand for a period of time. Eds eat in a separate room from psychs but eat with the other eds. The doctors chose their meals and near the end of treatment their parents get to chose their meals. You MUST eat ALL your food plus they make you lick your plate. If you refuse to eat something or don’t lick your plate, the nurse will make you drink two ensures (anorexic’s worst enemy). Generally you’re in patient (in hospital) for 3 months, then in out patient (go to school and treatment at hospital everyday but sleep at home) for the rest of the year. Weigh ins are about once a week but the nurses cover the # so you can’t see. You aren’t allowed to go to the washroom until 1hr after a snack or meal, and anytime you go to the bathroom a nurse has to be outside your door, and whether you pee or poo has to be recorded. When you shower a nurse has to sit in the roomwith you so they can hear if you’re making yourself throw up, but you can have a shower curtain. You aren’t allowed to say anything bad about yourself or anyone else, and the word fat is literally deadly on the unit. No one is allowed to talk about food, even if its positive. You aren’t allowed in your room alone, and you’re never allowed to miss a snack or meal. No one is allowed to start eating until all the ed patients are there, and everyone gets timed with how fast they eat. Even at school you have to have a nurse with you in order to go to the washroom. If you need something at night you have to use a call bell so the nurse can get it for you, and you’re on camera. The nurses are not easy to fool. They literally stuff you so full you’ll puke the first little while. They make you fat. You can go home on passes when the doctor okays it, which allows you to spend the day or sleep out of the hospital depending on how long your pass is for.but while you’re out your parents have to sign for you saying they’ll bring you back and that they will make sure you don’t go to the washroom for an hour, and you eat everything, and you don’t use laxitives or diet pills or make yourself throw up, or weigh/measure yourself while on pass.
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