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Anorexia Nervosa
Restriction is not what you are; it is what you have organized yourself around.
Anorexia most often runs through two of the five EDFE functions: Control and Competence, and Shape and Weight Evaluation. Nordbø's qualitative synthesis named it explicitly: security, mental strength, avoidance. The restriction provides an identity anchor and a felt site of competence that nothing else in the person's life is offering at equivalent intensity. Treatment that takes the control away without rebuilding the question underneath tends to collapse. CBT-E is first-line for adults; FBT for adolescents has the strongest evidence. This hub is being built out; the EDFE identifies which pattern you are carrying.
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The transdiagnostic eating disorder evaluation uses EDE-QS for severity and maps the function driving restriction. Archetypes relevant to anorexia include Control-and-Competence Restrictive, Body-Image-Primary Restrictive, and Driven-Exercise Restrictive.
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For the deeper layer under restriction: perfectionism, self-cohesion, interpersonal style. The PRI is useful when the EDFE shows a Control-and-Competence primary function and the clinical question is what the restriction is holding together.
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Anorexia is a medically serious condition. If you are in nutritional compromise, have lost significant weight, or are engaging in compulsive exercise, medical evaluation should come before psychotherapy. A consultation can help coordinate the right level of care.
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