Story When Meaghan gets upset about the way she looks, she sometimes thinks about going back to starving herself. She asks the nurse practitioner, “Can’t you prescribe me some medicine so I can just eat and not think about food and weight? I’m so tired of always thinking, ‘Don’t eat this. Don’t eat that. You’ll get fat.” What would be the nurse practitioner’s best response be to this question? “We can try a low dose of antipsychotic medication to take those thoughts away.” “We can try a low dose of antidepressant medication to take those thoughts away.” “There is no medication that will help with those thoughts, but they can improve with talk therapy.” “We can try anxiolytic medication to take those thoughts away.”
[Answered]: Story When Meaghan gets upset about the way she…
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