@Former-Member
When you say your family is held hostage till you can flag down help - do you mean professional medical help? Yes
And to do that he would need to be investigated. Yes
Do you mean a non-voluntary mental health assessment? I mean S2's pdoc or the family counsellor recognising enough signs of eating disordered behaviour in what I have said to investigate him further, likely through our family doctor ..... and then if, say, he is sent to a dietician, for that dietician to pick up that he is eating disordered by the more obvious symptoms and by questioning him about his diet and exercise.
Of course he won't volunteer that he is chewing and spitting 14 litres of food a day, but if he is admitted to a clinic for longer than 48 hours, that will show on their radar somewhere ..... cos if it's 14 litres coming out, it's a hellavalot more going in .... and that sort of storage of chocolates n such is hard to hide, hard to hide the behaviour with the movement of staff in and around his room ..... hard to get rid of 14 litres of food refuse a day .... and he won't be eating their meals, asking family members to bring him food according to his regimen requirements ..... and then his obsessive exercise addiction would show up pretty quickly too.
I can understand you not wanting to push the triggers to invasive abusive treatments. Do you mean violent outbursts? Emotionally violent / abusive outbursts, not physical .... extremely controlling, passive-aggressive, creating chaos, denying our feelings, pulling close then pushing away, sabotaging plans, blaming, shaming, ranting, delusional thinking, re-writing events, accusing us of having ulterior motives, tracking our movements by phone and on camera ....
I hope you don't have to wait much longer. Me too.
I want this so much for mine as well. believe this will happen in time for us. Me too !
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