Why did they forbid them from getting tattoos?
I understand not allowing them access to medication cause there are ways to abuse meds to lose weight- but surely body ink isn't in any way related to anorexia or bulimia. Getting a tattoo neither helps nor hurts an eating disorder, to the best of my knowledge.
Why did they go so psychotic over it? :S
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a couple reasons:
-it's changing your body. for some people its a way of creating a facade and not accepting yourself as you are, which is a huge part of eating disorder recovery
-some people are addicted to tattos. fighting addiction of any sort is the main goal
- many people cut or burn themselves, its very hard to succesfully do that in treatment. tattoos can be a way of inflicting pain.
obviously this doesn't apply to everyone who goes to treatment, but they have to have the same rules for everyone
I never thought of those reasons. I thought that the tattoos might become infected and that it really wasn't the nurses' job to have to deal with any more than they already had on their hands.
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Also, some diseases can be transmitted by nonsterile equipment.
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