How can you help someone with an Eating Disorder?

Other than being supportive, the person really needs professional help. This is not a condition that the average person can do much to help. Lots of folks with eating disorders are very difficult to deal with, tend to be manipulative and work hard to hide their condition, so it's hard to know even how to help without making things worse.

It also helps not to reinforce common stereotypes, especially complimenting someone on how thin they are and how great that is - it's hard for a person with anorexia, for instance, to believe they should eat when they're being praised for being so thin.

Realize that you can't help them. Get them professional help. That's the best you can do. A true eating disorder is a disease. You can't cure them, and the only hope is that they find a professional that can help them.
The only way someone can get help for an eating disorder is to go to the doctors and ask for help, simply asking someone to stop doing it certainly wont work!! Eating disorders are mental illnesses that needs treatment!
Someone with experience!!
You can't really help a person with an eating disorder. They have to over come the disorder themselves. They have to be ready to get help themselves. All you can do is support them, but you can't make them eat. Never do that. My daughter was anorexic and she has over come the problem.
One of the main characteristics of eating disorder is that people deny that they actualy suffer it.

The first thing I would advice is: don't leave the person alone for much time, especially before of after eating.

The causes for Eating Disorders are basically a low self-esteem and misintepreted internalization of his/her self image. So build him/her up by making the person feel good about herself.

Zinc deficiency causes a decrease in appetite - give her some Zinc supplements.

Deficiency of other nutrients such as tyrosine and tryptophan (precursors of the monoamine neurotransmitters norepinephrine and serotonin, respectively), as well as vitamin B1 (thiamine) could contribute to this phenomenon of malnutrition-induced malnutrition.

A recent clinical review has suggested that psychotherapy is an effective form of treatment and can lead to restoration of weight, return of menses among female patients, and improved psychological and social functioning when compared to simple support or education programmes.[

Drug treatments, such as SSRI or other antidepressant medication, have not found to be generally effective for either treating anorexia.
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