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Teen in mental health crisis: Any good resources?
About Kids & Teens | Last Active: Aug 12 4:44pm | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
Not just the eating disorder, but all of it. Her doc says some part of her psyche is feeling a need to hold on to these conditions, that it is filling a need or desire on some level - but meanwhile she is in misery, and keeps sinking further into depression and her emotional dysregulation behaviors - so obviously it’s not like she’s consciously choosing to experience this hell.
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That's an interesting view.
Your mentioning the eating disorder caught my attention because I'm interested in nutrition, and I've read (and experienced) that anemia can predispose me to irritability, and there are a few ways that nutritional deficiencies can contribute to anemias, or a state close to anemia.
Plus, deficits or imbalances of some things like zinc and selenium can lead to 'emotional lability'-- I think that means very changeable or unstable emotions.