When I was 19, I had another bad flare up of gastroparesis, a digestive disorder which causes paralysis of the stomach.  My flare up was complete with incessant vomiting, inability to eat any food or keep down any liquid, and terrible cramping pains and constipation and bloating. My mom and my adolescent medicine doctor confronted me and insisted that I be admitted to either a psychiatric unit or an eating disorder facility. They assumed that if the typical treatment for gastroparesis wasn’t working, there must be more to it than just gastroparesis.  My GI doctor figured I had a lot of psych issues going on along with the gastroparesis so maybe if we cleared up the psych issues I would be easier to treat. He didn’t specialize in gastroparesis and had told us he had never seen a case as bad as mine before.