Learning material

Wow what a wonderful example of misinformation. Let me explain, I work in an inpatient psy hospital and once a year we must take a three part class called safe crisis management where we learn how to handle situations that arise that can become a crisis and what to do if there is a crissis. One step of avoiding a crisis is knowing what to expect from a patient based on personality and diagnosis. For example someone who is in a manic phase of their bipolar disease will probably not sleep at night and will have trouble keeping their voice low. So knowing that you would try to provide them with an area on the unit far from sleeping patients with an activity that is calming. Makes sense right? So I took part one of my class this past Monday and we spent sometime reviewing different diagnoses. We played a matching game where we needed to match the symptoms to the dx. Here are the two sentences ment to be matched with anorexia: "Most often diagnosed in females. Many individuals come from controlling families where nurturance is lacking." Really? Ok I understand the first sentence, mostly dx in females. Yes men do have EDs but less often. But the second sentence bugs me. I think for teaching purposes it is a horrible summary. It makes it sound like if we all had more hugs as children we would be fine. Is that how you would define anorexia? I describe it as a coping mechanism in which a person is overtly controlling about what they eat in order to feel that they have control over life, brought on by a feeling of lack of control. It may start as a diet but spirals out of control to where "looking good" in life is no longer a main focus. Ok end of my rant.