11 News Over the weekend, millions of people overindulged at the dinner table. The good news, however, is patients are finding success with a new program. The new program for treating eating disorders involves partial hospitalization.
Patients check into a hospital during the day and go home at night.
For many, this works better than full-time hospital stays. It's 6 o'clock in the evening, they're hungry because they haven't eaten all day, they start thinking about going back to say binging and purging. Or as in the case of one patient we spoke with, Heather Thompson, not eating at all. She was first diagnosed with anorexia when she was seven. Usually it starts between ages 15 and 24.