IV. Eating Disorders

Today is day four and I’ll be visiting a family household. The mother and father do not have any mental health disorders that I’m aware of but they do have three daughters.
All three of them are sisters who have different types of eating disorders. The youngest has bulimia, the middle sister has anorexia, and the oldest has binge eating disorder. I will be observing each three during my stay and make sure to write everything down as well as comparing the two. This will be an interesting one for sure.
I met the parents as well as all three girls and right away, I could see who was anorexic. She was very boney in the face, arms, and legs. She didn’t look like she would need medical attention yet but I could tell it was starting to get to that point by how bad it still looked. I wondered if her parents or her two other sisters even realized how bad this was. How could they not see it? I decided that she would be the first for me to observe.
I smelled something coming from the kitchen which smelled delicious. It was time for breakfast for the family. Everyone set the table and the parents set down all the food onto the center of the table. I saw a look of disgust coming from the girl with anorexia, a normal one from the girl with bulimia, but excitement from the girl with binge eating. That was something I wanted to write down. They all sat down, taking food and placing them on their plates. The girl...