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| When is specialist referral necessary?
- For a second opinion or specialist assessment when the clinical
picture is uncertain
- Self-help or first-line treatments seem to be failing
- Disturbed eating behaviour is entrenched and out of control
- Continuing weight loss and dehydration despite treatment
- Concurrent psychiatric disturbance, such as depression,
obsessive-compulsive disorder or severe personality disorder
- Severe family dysfunction or distress
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