HLTHAGE 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eating Disorder
19 Dec 2016
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Nov 4, 2016
HLTHAGE 2B03
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Stacey - Mental Health
•Works with at risk student in Hamilton
•Spread knowledge and awareness of mental illness
•Best overall health
•Depression for most of life, difficult childhood, guilty and responsible for things in life
•Hard time in school, only 8 girls in class, usually picked on
•Obsessed with weight, restricted weight, want to become thin, to change bullying
•Eat disorder had developed
•Nothing was making her happy, even sports that caused happiness in past
•Nobody to talk to
•To deal with emotional pain started cutting and burning herself
•Shy, quiet and awkward, few friends that were hard to keep
•Fear of eating in front of others causing her to not participate in social activities at lunch
•Marks dropped
•Cry for attention, cutting behaviour, nothing was done right away about it by the doctor
•Mother became aware of things going on
•Major depression and eating disorder
•Medication didnt help, eating disorder group didnt help
•Group did help but it was her that was the problem
•Didnt believe that eating was a problem
•Did find a doctor she liked and could trust, helped in any way that she could
•Grade 10 was difficult, Lost weight rapidly, health was compromised, depression was worst it
had been ever
•Life wasn't worth living anymore, burning and cutting continued and was more frequent
•Convinced self that people in life where better off without her because she felt she caused
them pain and was a burden
•2 suicide attempts that landed her in hospital
•Didnt know how to deal with issues
•Mood declined rapidly, couldn't get help she needed in paediatric unit
•Regular visits with many professionals
•Learn to live with other people that struggled with similar issues
•Took time to trust staff issues
•Overall sadness that effected every aspect of life, pain that was uncontrollably, couldn't sleep,
no appetite, dizziness
•Change in medication, new coping strategies
•Symptoms feeling were apart of an illness
•Coping strategies helped to stop destructive behaviour
•Was able to stop cutting and burning
•Eating disorder continued but not as seriously
•Not happy but improved
•Changes helped to function better in school, life in general
•Integrating into high school was difficult, made friends and became involved in sports teams
•Ability to focus and concentrate helped with grade, accepted to 3 universities
•Went to McMaster, work hard to get into the social work program, focused on school and
work
•Mental health felt okay, not followed by any doctors, still struggling with eating disorder
•Felt had to keep difficulties to herself, no doctors or people in Hamilton
•Accepted into social work program, slipped back into depression, went to student health clinic
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