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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 266852" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>WSM, this leapt out at me.</p><p>According to the excellent psychiatrist who's been working with us on my difficult child's issue s for the past couple of years, serious underweight can cause significant mental impairment, aside from any other diagnoses that are present. </p><p></p><p>So, with a BMI of 17 and a weight of only 84 lbs, that alone might be exacerbating any other problems that your difficult child already has.</p><p></p><p>At the time this was noted, my difficult child was 6 ft 2 1/2, 99 lbs, and had a BMI of about 16.5. He was immediately put on a high calorie diet including nutrition supplement shakes 3x daily. He's now 6 ft 3 1/2, 160 lbs. Still underweight but no longer dangerously so.</p><p></p><p>I get the feeling that with your difficult child, compliance will be an issue, but someone needs to be addressing the weight and eating. Honestly, given that you're already the target for a lot of difficult child's vitriol, I think it should be someone other than you. Not sure what advice to give, but I just wanted to pass this information along.</p><p></p><p>Sorry that your weekend is starting off this way.</p><p>Sending hugs,</p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 266852, member: 3907"] WSM, this leapt out at me. According to the excellent psychiatrist who's been working with us on my difficult child's issue s for the past couple of years, serious underweight can cause significant mental impairment, aside from any other diagnoses that are present. So, with a BMI of 17 and a weight of only 84 lbs, that alone might be exacerbating any other problems that your difficult child already has. At the time this was noted, my difficult child was 6 ft 2 1/2, 99 lbs, and had a BMI of about 16.5. He was immediately put on a high calorie diet including nutrition supplement shakes 3x daily. He's now 6 ft 3 1/2, 160 lbs. Still underweight but no longer dangerously so. I get the feeling that with your difficult child, compliance will be an issue, but someone needs to be addressing the weight and eating. Honestly, given that you're already the target for a lot of difficult child's vitriol, I think it should be someone other than you. Not sure what advice to give, but I just wanted to pass this information along. Sorry that your weekend is starting off this way. Sending hugs, Trinity [/QUOTE]
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