What are the treatment options for the management of eating disorders?

What we understand about this illness is that it only goes into "hiding" or what doctors call remission. Although the patient can almost fully recover and work like most other people, we usually do not say that patient is completely discharged. The patient still needs life long follow up and, if on medications, likely require them for life. If the medication is stopped and follow up defaulted, the chance of schizophrenia coming back is 4 in 5 people. And every attack has a chance that it can decrease the function of the patient permanently.

Biederman et al. conducted a 10-year case-control prospective study of lifetime prevalence of comorbid psychopathology from adolescence into adulthood. At follow-up, 112 males with ADHD and 105 males without ADHD were successfully recalled, and 91% and 90% of individuals in the ADHD and control groups, respectively, had reached adulthood (aged ≥18 years).