This was about a 4-year-old girl who was believed to have the first case of “infantile anorexia. I thought her trauma was so interesting because her brain was really and truly affecting her entire body. Her mother gave her very little physical affection and this led to her brain not developing properly. She developed this infantile anorexia and wouldn’t grow, even with tube feeding. They believed she had a form of “failure to thrive” due to her brain not developing properly. This is so scary and interesting because her brain relies so much on affection to help shape it and without it the body begins to shut down. Her body essentially shuts down and is not able to properly live because of the neglect she
This was about a 4-year-old girl who was believed to have the first case of “infantile anorexia. I thought her trauma was so interesting because her brain was really and truly affecting her entire body. Her mother gave her very little physical affection and this led to her brain not developing properly. She developed this infantile anorexia and wouldn’t grow, even with tube feeding. They believed she had a form of “failure to thrive” due to her brain not developing properly. This is so scary and interesting because her brain relies so much on affection to help shape it and without it the body begins to shut down. Her body essentially shuts down and is not able to properly live because of the neglect she