Duke Center for Eating Disorders (DCED) at Duke Health is located in Durham, North Carolina. Duke treats children, adolescents and adults of all genders. It offers individualized outpatient treatment including individual, group and family therapy, medical management, psychopharmacology and nutritional counseling. Their telemedicine program is also in development.
According to their website, some of the conditions DCED treats include:
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Avoidance Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
- Binge Eating Disorder (BED) (including pediatric binge eating)
- Body Image Dysphoria (individuals uncomfortable living in their bodies but lacking eating symptoms)
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Childhood Somatic Pain Syndromes (such as tummy pain)
- Eating issues associated with:
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Gender Dysphoria
- Medical Conditions (such as pediatric cancer, or issues of the gastrointestinal or endocrine system)
- Selective Eating
In addition, DCED has an active online Family Care and Education community, and ongoing on-site education and support programs such as parent training groups, weekend programs, and sibling and spouse support.
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They don’t tell you this in any of the websites/documents but the program only sees you for a few months to max 1 year of once a week appointments. They only do short term behavior stabilization. There’s no groups or dietitians, just a ton of surveys that repeat every month and an assigned therapist who tells you what you should/shouldn’t be eating and does exposure therapy in session. If you want to talk about anything else or don’t want to deal with a therapist who cosplays as a dietitian then go somewhere else. Weirdest eating disorder “therapy” experience by far. Also the offices are borderline interrogation rooms.
I was in the duke ED program from 2005-2008. The only way to be in the full program is to have duke insurance or pay out of pocket. I saw the old medical director and he was a savior. I wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for that man. Unfortunately he left and the program has gone to shit since then. Then again at the time I had no desire whatsoever and was eventually discharged because I refused to gain weight and/or seek a higher level of care.
I was in the medical hospital for five weeks as a result if low weight and my heart. The doctor had worked with the ED program and told me if I didn’t eat and gain weight I would be a waste of a bed and she would ship me to a state hospital