My Sweet Lindsee

My sweet Lindsee.. wow what a child, she has sure a sweet spirit about her. She never fights when she is asked to do something she just gets right up and does it (unless you ask her to clean her room). She has struggled the past few months with an eating disorder. This has been hard for ALL of us but we have manged to stay strong through it. As a parent you seem to feel like it is your fault, well let me tell you I have taken the blame for a very long time, then I realized it is not my fault or Jeff's fault. We raised a beautiful little girl, we clothed her fed her kept her safe. God gave us all our one free agency, with this we all make our own decisions whether they are good or bad, we have to suffer the consequences.This has been such a hard thing for us to go through as a family and it has done a couple of things to our,it has made us stronger and also made us crumble a little. But thanks to the support of family, great friends and a lot of prayers we are getting through this one step at a time. When this first happened we were not going to tell any one and then we realized that we could not get through this without friends and family. We are very lucky and caught Lindsee's before it got to bad and too out of control, her anorexia is a VERY mild case. She sees a dietitian weekly as well as a therapist both Ali and Andrea are great!!
I post this not for sympathy but for every ones information. Eating disorders can affect anyone no matter the age young or old. Thank you all for your support!!!
Anorexia is a disorder where the main characteristic is the restriction of food and the refusal to maintain a minimal normal body weight. Most Anorexics lose weight by restricting their food intake. Anorexics may start by limiting or excluding foods that they perceive as having high fat or caloric content.
Once the disorder of Anorexia Nervosa takes hold, the individual usually ends up with an extremely restrictive diet that is sometimes limited to only a small number of foods. Additional methods of weight loss for Anorexics can include vomiting, laxative abuse, diuretic abuse, insulin abuse, chew-spitting, and excessive exercise.
For individuals suffering from Anorexia Nervosa, any actual gain or even perceived gain of weight is met with intense fear of becoming fat. With Anorexia Nervosa, weight loss usually does not lesson the fear, and in fact, the fear often increases following the weight loss. Not only is there a true feeling of fear, but also once in the grasp of the disorder, Anorexics experience body image distortions. Most individuals suffering from Anorexia have an overall feeling of being overweight.