Absent from the table!
No longer coming to the table with the rest of the tribe is not nothing! Systematically avoiding family meetings and meals is a great classic of the passage from childhood to adulthood.
Yes, but beware, what is really hiding behind this withdrawal? No longer eating like everyone else, inventing reasons to go on a new diet again, no longer being able to eat, all these signs should be taken seriously when they last or when the young person is visibly losing weight!
Control and loss of appetite
The anorexic teenager sets up an infernal ritual under the helpless eyes of his parents. From morning to night, he is no longer hungry, or if he agrees to sit down at the table, it is after spending time preparing the meal: he weighs everything, calculates everything he is going to eat. except for calories, eating becomes a permanent stress. In addition, weighings after each meal, endless chewing, vomiting, hiding food, in short everything is organized, ritualized and controlled!
Intellectuals!
Often brilliant, young girls have excellent academic results! Would they make up for it? Is this a way to have peace? This intellectual overinvestment is frequent among those who do everything to go unnoticed “physically”, as if they wanted to somehow disappear, not to talk about them … These personality traits of dazzling perfection contrast with their frail appearance and brittle. Picky, orderly, careful, obsessive, everything must be perfect, otherwise their whole being is set in motion! This concern for perfection conceals a skin-deep fragility. Self-control, looking strong and robust, with physical skin on your bones!