My daughter is 19 and looks like a skeleton. She has an eating disorder (anorexia) which developed during adolescence out of the usual slimming teenage craze. She now refuses to attend the special hospital programme she started. I feel helpless seeing her withering away before me – can she be forced to get professional help now that she is over 18 ?
By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 07 June, 2022Yes. In such a situation a parent can be appointed by court to become a guardian for their adult child in this specific matter and give written permission for her forced hospitalisation in a unit designed to deal with the eating disorder.