Fear of food

Fear of food

By Ruth Laugesen In Health, Psychology

Wellingtonian Nicki Wilson spends hours each week listening to parents who are struggling to help their daughters fight the harrowing disorder of anorexia. What they have in common is bewilderment and shock.

“What is going on inside the homes of the people who are supporting their children is indescribable.” There are the screaming fights over food, the insistence that “if you loved me, you wouldn’t make me eat”. There is deceit, the throwing of plates, the hiding of food, the frantic exercising when no one is looking, says Wilson, who supports parents as part of the Eating Disorders ...

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