What is the relapse rate for anorexics?

What is the relapse rate for anorexics?

I think what statistics show to us is it that when people go through treatment 60% of people recover fairly well, there's a 20% group that is a relapsing, doing well group and then there's another 20% that seem to remain ill. So when we look at the relapse percentages we probably see maybe about 40% that tend to relapse so statistically it's a fairly large group and I think the relapses occur as a result of discomfort with body. So that's the reason why treatment has to be sort of so long and progressive because when you're re-feeding the person back to health, imagine how fat they're going to be feeling for a good chunk of their life at that point; and until they begin to see the value of how their life is different as a result of the eating disorder not controlling them, when they see that their life is actually better off without the eating disorder, then you can cross over that cast of them being able to see that gosh I think I'm going to be okay at this weight that I'm at. My life could be okay, and I don't have to hold on to those skinny jeans I've been keeping in my closet the last four years.