• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    4 days ago

    Doesn’t matter what it is; it’s edible, and the owner of that arm desperately needs to eat it.

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          4 days ago

          tbh most psych units I’ve worked don’t even do that kind of ED. We’ll do BED in a pinch but anorexia nervosa or bulimia with significant weight loss is either stable enough to be managed outpatient or unstable enough that it needs either medical hospitalization or a specialized unit. I’ve worked one psych unit that could handle telemetry and they wouldn’t have liked having to.

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      Maybe this person has a food related disorder, like “apples are the only things I can eat” and eating a tomato thinking it’s an apple might help in a way ?