W12 Brave Girl Eating Ch. 7 - Epilogue

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W12 Additional Reading: Brave Girl Eating (Ch.7- Epilogue) Instructions Answer the questions below. Write a write a 1 - 1.5 page response (this is typically about 300+ words ) to the following prompt. Remember to make it clear that you have read the entire assigned reading in your response. Question 1 Kitty's mother talked about needing to grieve the loss of a perfect child. How do you think her image of Kitty before as perfect affects the way she interacts with Kitty now? What evidence do you see of her grieving? What impact do you think this has on Kitty's recovery? There is nothing wrong with wanting your child to be perfect. Many parents want that, but it turns into a problem when that child does not end up being perfect. When a child who was supposed to be this model of the perfect child does something to slip up, whether it is a choice they made, an accident, or, in Kitty's case, an eating disorder, sometimes the parents can take it really hard. When I was younger, my sister was supposed to be the perfect child; then she made some mistakes in college, and my parents decided that the perfect child in the family was no longer going to be her; it was going to be me. At first, that was no problem; all of that only happened to me when I was ten years old, but as I got older, it did start to become too much. I developed my own eating disorder, a minor one compared to Kitty's, and realized that I had a few other mental disorders that technically prevented me from being the perfect child. I saw the toll it took on my mother; it was a little easier for her to grieve this loss than Kitty's mother, mostly because my mother had already grieved it with my sister and had known for a while that there was something preventing me from being perfect. Every parent takes this loss in a different way. My mother had come to terms with it way earlier than I did; Kitty's mother had a very hard time accepting this fact. She went through the five stages of grief, as she said. She went through a lot; she had to accept when she was pregnant with Emma that she might have a child with Down syndrome, and now she has to accept that her eldest child has this demon in her, and it will always be there, there is no getting rid of it. BYU-Idaho PSYCH 342

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