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How do you approach a friend who has an eating disorder? |
One of my closest friends hasn't been eating. At all. On the rare occasion that she does, she eats a small salad, minus the croutons and dressing. She's 15 years old, 5'0" and weighs 80 pounds. She claims that she's "fat and ugly" and then pinches invisible "fat" from her stomach to try to prove her point. She's in the weight room after school every day running on the treadmill and using the Stairmaster. She tells me that she limits herself to 350 calories a day. I tell her that's unhealthy, but she won't listen to any of it. I feel that as a friend, I should do something, but what should I say? I don't want her to end up in a hospital strapped to feeding tubes. Please help. =/ be firm with her if you really care tell her "You are not helping yourself and i would really hate to see you throw your life down the drain and i love you no matter what." If shes a visual person show her pictures of anorexic people and say is this how you wanna end up? show people in the hostpital with tupes stuck in all over and then ask if she needs any other help besides your support. She does tho, nobody can do it without perfessonal help. talk to a school counceler to help her out. she may be mad at first but you could have saved her life. well if shes 15 then u need to just adress it head on nip this thing in the bud as fast as you can cuz this can become a habit and at such a young age Here's a website that might help. I know people that are anorexic, and one person that it bulemic. They aren't close friends though. http://www.kidshealth.com/teen/food_fitn... Good luck to both you and your friend! She will not listen to you. Talk to her parents/a school counselor. You can go to an anerexic website and show her the awful pictures of women starving theirselves to death. im not really sure since i act the same way she does, eating the same as she does. people like that dont want help, but i guess we need it. contact a guidance counselor, their parents, and everything. theyll be able to help her. itll just be really tough on her, but if you want her to get better, do it. Educate yourself and learn everything you can about eating disorders so that when you talk to her you know what you are talking about. And then maybe you could help her learn about it too, because she can't stop doing it, but if she learns all the facts about it, she might see that she's not alone, and that she can get some real help and she will understand why she is doing it and feeling the way she feels and why she can't control herself. This is a serious and complicated problem and not many people understand it, including those who have it. She will not be able to fix the problem on her own, most likely, but if she has a better understanding of what's going on, she will be more able to seek help and learn to control it. |
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