My friend is super pretty..she has blond hair, she is the perfect size and shape, she's the only one in our "circle of friends" with a boyfriend, and at dances she(and occasionally me) get asked to slow dance...and she thinks she is WAYYY overweight. I really don't remember the last time she brought a lunch to school. We tell her to eat, and she says she has already ate too much. We tell her that she doesn't need to worry about her weight, and she says she wants to diet..We have talked and she just doesn't understand that not only is she bringing down her self-confidence, but ours too, cuz she is WAYY skinnier than us, and she is calling herself a hippo and all this crap. We really don't know what to do, we have seriously tried alot.HELP!
If she is still a healthy weight, and hasn't lost a lot of pounds that she might just have some self esteem issues, but at the same time she very well could have an eating disorder. You've probably already tried this, but just sit her down and say, "I'm really worried about you. I don't see you eat a lot and you say bad things about your size and it makes me and other people who care about you think that you might have an eating disorder. I know that you might not want to talk to me about it, but know that I'm always here to help and I care about you. Eating disorders are really dangerous and even if you're just thinking about starving yourself or throwing up, find someone to talk to."... Or you know, anything of that sort. But eating disorders are tricky things. I think that if she was really deep into something unhealthy, that she might not be so open about it, so dont worry too much. Everyone I've heard of with an eating disorder tries to keep it on the down low for the most part, because they don't want to change their habits. |
