Parents Testimony

When they asked us to explained our testimony, at first, it seemed to be an interesting idea, but what we did not think was that this fact would revived us those infernal moments of our life, when we were not capable of finding a solution to the strange behavior of our daughter, behavior that caused us an enormous suffering, always pending of the telephone, thinking that from the other side a voice will reported us a new suicide attempt of our daughter.

How she would have tried this time?  Taking lots of pills, cutting her veins, or god know how she would try it.  How much time the admissions in the psychiatric hospital would last?, Would they be capable to cure our daughter?.  The truth is that each time we have less hope to find a solution to the strange behavior of our daughter.

Some doctors told us that she didn’t have anything, that she only wanted to call our attention, others told us that the fault was ours, that if our daughter rejected the food was because we were not capable of cooking dishes that she likes, other that she suffered a depression, in summary it turned out to be impossible to us to seek a solution to a problem that neither the doctors were capable of diagnosing and to come to an agreement.

But in spite of all, we did never loose the hope and finally, it arrived the day in which someone told us the she might have an illness almost stranger called Anorexia Nervosa. 
Time lacked us to seek centers that treated this illness, in order to initiate a process of recovery, in case it that was an Anorexia Nervosa.

At last they diagnosed that she presented an Anorexia Nervosa, great! They could begin to treat our daughter, at last she would get cured and would be again the happy and sweet girl that had been years ago.

At last, we found a private Center in Barcelona, where they told us that the only way to cure our daughter was doing a treatment in Day Hospital, from 9a.m to 6p.m that supposed us going to live to Barcelona, because out of the Center she could not be alone.  As you can imagine this solution was totally impossible, we could not permit the luxury to rent an apartment in Barcelona and much less to go and to return daily from the city of Olot (more than 200km per day)

In short, after exposing all the problems to the doctor of the private center, we arrive at the solution of carrying our daughter three times a week, but conscience that if she did not carry a daily treatment, it will be impossible for her to get cured. 
Lucky for us after four or five months that we have initiated the treatment in Barcelona, the psychiatrist of the center gave us the news of our life: at last there would be a center specialized in Girona! 

Now they have already passed more than two years since she is being treated in the U.P.A located in the Clinic Dr Bofill, and at last we can breathe in peace, our daughter is again the same one that had been  many years ago.  Our life has changed to all of us, we are again a united family, we have recovered the smile, to talk… but it has not been easier.  The first months of treatment were a hell, since she did not want to be cured, but thanks to the marvelous Medical-Therapeutic team of the U.P.A and to her wise advices today for the present, we can breathe peacefully.