If you are at immediate physical risk, you need inpatient treatment.
If you are not making progress in outpatient therapy, you need something more intensive.
If you’ve been doing great for months and have an established support system, you can decrease your level or frequency of treatment.
… but, is there such a thing as “touch-up” treatment?
In the spirit of my remission and relapse post, I’d like to emphasize the many shades of gray between the two extremes.  You don’t wake up one morning to have fallen off the recovery cliff overnight (though …

There has been a lot of talk about remission in eating disorders lately, and I couldn’t be happier to hear about it. I have long believed that EDs are chronic and that even though it’s probably possible to reach a point of 98% recovery, there’s no hitting 100%. There is no recoverED.
While this probably sounds depressing, I actually think that the idea of remission is very validating. It gives you another shade of gray in the sick to healthy spectrum. Plus, I think there’s a fear …