My friend has an eating disorder, can anyone help me understand it?!
Question: My friend and I have been best friends practically since birth. Last night we had a sleepover and she told me that she had an eating disorder.
She's been going to treatment and she was released about two weeks ago, but she says she's having trouble flying solo. He parents say that if she doesn't gain 2 pounds in two weeks they're sending her away.
She says that she doesn't "think she's fat" or anything. All she said was that she was really stressed out, and just couldn't eat, but she hinted that there could be other factors contributing to her disorder.
Can anyone help me understand what she's going through?
Answers: My friend and I have been best friends practically since birth. Last night we had a sleepover and she told me that she had an eating disorder.
She's been going to treatment and she was released about two weeks ago, but she says she's having trouble flying solo. He parents say that if she doesn't gain 2 pounds in two weeks they're sending her away.
She says that she doesn't "think she's fat" or anything. All she said was that she was really stressed out, and just couldn't eat, but she hinted that there could be other factors contributing to her disorder.
Can anyone help me understand what she's going through?
its very difficult to understand if you havent been there
like many illnesses
i have been where your friend is, twice now
i told my family that i didnt think i was fat. that i had already eaten etc etc etc
you can only hide it for so long though
her parents are dealing with this all wrong
if it was as simple as putting on a couple of pounds yo keep everyone off her back, she would do it, and they will be stressing her out more
the key here is education
for everyone around her, none of you may truly understand how she feels but if you can understand her illness it will go a long way to helping her
disorders like these are often, though not always sparked when a person feels they are loosing control of their life, school/work is a pressure, friends are demanding, too much stuff you have to do not enough time to do the stuff you WANT to do etc etc
food intake is the only thing you can control and before you know or realize, it is controlling you
until your friend finds a comfortable place to be in her life, and admits 1st of all to herself, and then to you all what is wrong, she cannot begin to recover, and all you can do for now is be patient, be a friend, and make this journey with her
i wish you both the best of luck
yes a doctor or a counselor or some adult
I think first her parents should take her to a doctor to make sure she is not sick or there isn't a virus in her stomach causing her to not be hungry. I went through the exact same thing where I didn't think I was fat and I just wasn't hungry and it turned out something was wrong with my intestine when everyone else thought that I was going anorexic...
sounds like anorexia--searching web site under eating disorders should give you some help--they will also have links to sites that are support groups for family and friends. She has for some reason, taken food as an enemy--either by someone telling her she's fat, by all the magazines & pictures of celebs and models and trying to get what she thinks is perfect for her, not realizing that perfect is for your individual body and not someone's else----it is and emotional and mental response to something that has been said, seen or done---please search the web for this---they would be better able to help you understand what the basics are of this disorder. good luck
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if she trust you, sit down with her and find out what these other factors that are contributing to the matter are , and then advice her to talk about them with her doctor- maybe her treatment really is not working because she is not really getting out what the problem is and if you do not get out the problem the treatment will not do any good
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