Riley Nickols, the director of the McCallum Place Eating Disorder Center’s Victory Program, spent one March morning with a Division I swimmer in residential treatment who was debating whether to self-isolate in place or at her parents’ home. As long as she remained in treatment, she told Nickols, she would be surrounded by other people with whom she could connect and identify. She could not count on the same support or compassion from her family, who do not understand her ordeal and why she is unable to modify her eating habits. As he recalled, her concern was, “If I go home, I’m going to be lonely and isolated.”

Source: New York Times May 03, 2020 20:26 UTC