In patients like these, I have often found that the disease and the attention received from having the disease serves a secondary function, something other than the "it tastes good/feels good to live this way" and more along the lines of "this disease and the attention I receive lets me know I'm alive, or validated." Until the secondary function is addressed as well, it is unlikely that progress will occur. An assessment of the beliefs associated in being a person with this type of disease as well as helplessness beliefs might lead to a therapeutic approach that refuses to focus on, or talk about, AT ALL, the disease and its ramifications, and focuses, instead, on the need for validation. Freudian psychoanalysis is often a great therapy for people who need to have others focus on them.
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