It's the exact opposite of transition related medical treatments, which are constantly under attack, forcing providers to provide more and more evidence that it works. Of course, this evidence is always ignored.
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You're still thinking moralistically. These aren't people doing something bad for validation, these are patients who don't have effective treatments.
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This is at the root of the misunderstanding of GD and AN. People think the purpose of AN treatment is to make bad people behave. But the purpose of treatment is to make sick people well. Medicine doesn't care if you have delusions, it cares that they interfere with your life.
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I'm afraid we've started going around in circles. Still not sure if you don't understand or are pretending not to.
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Ok, let's try a thought experiment: If a treatment allowed anorexics to maintain a low weight w/o unhealthy behaviors or obsessive thoughts, would medicine have any problem with that? Would the desire for a low weight be a problem or is the problem the health and mental effects?
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Why would their motivation have to be explored? They're now medically healthy, holding jobs, not going in and out of treatment, they're stable at an unusually low weight. What possible medical purpose would examining their motivations serve after that?
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