My friend keeps telling me she wants to become anorexic! please help?!
Question: My friend keeps telling me she wants to become anorexic! please help!?
my friend keeps telling me that she thinks shes fat and that she wants to be anorexic or bulemic because she hates the way she looks even though shes 5'8 and weighs 128 pounds, a normal weight for her height!. im trying to tell her that what shes saying is wrong but she wont listen to me and i dont know what to do!. please help me!. i dont want anything bad to happen to her!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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you should tell a parent, teacher, consular, or a trusted adult immediately! i had a close friend that got on diet pills and only ate diet bars and then most of the time threw them up! she was overweight but by the time she got help she reached a barely healthy weight and had to be hospitalized! im 5'9" and 104lbs but am currently struggling with anorexia!. please get your friend help before she starts bad habbits that she won't be able to stop! tell her that her hair will fall out, she will stop her period(if she has it), and will grow hair all over her body because she will have no fat for warmth! good luck! hope this helps! :)Www@Answer-Health@Com
I don't think that the people here who say "this is an emergency, she could die" have any idea what they are talking about!.
Anorexia!.!.!. isn't brought about solely by a want to be skinny!. I don't think that your friend understands that either!. Anorexia is an underlying mental problem manifesting itself in starving for control!. Often it has ties to trauma and/or sexual, physical, or emotional abuse!. Anorexics aren't just looking to drop a few!.
However it does seem that your friend has a lot of self esteem issues, probably not uncommon for someone her age!. Don't panic!. Advise her to talk with a guidance counselor or similar and try to set a good example for her!. Don't diet, compliment both her and yourself!. She can learn by example!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Anorexia!.!.!. isn't brought about solely by a want to be skinny!. I don't think that your friend understands that either!. Anorexia is an underlying mental problem manifesting itself in starving for control!. Often it has ties to trauma and/or sexual, physical, or emotional abuse!. Anorexics aren't just looking to drop a few!.
However it does seem that your friend has a lot of self esteem issues, probably not uncommon for someone her age!. Don't panic!. Advise her to talk with a guidance counselor or similar and try to set a good example for her!. Don't diet, compliment both her and yourself!. She can learn by example!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It is a sad day when a stranger (me) has to break this sort of news to you, but your friend is a complete idiot!. If she WANTED to become anorexic/bulimic, she would!. It would not be hard for her, and she probably would not be talking about it openly!. It sounds like she just wants to lose weight, and of course the skinny girls who get the most attention of all the skinny girls have eating disorders!. Who doesn't want attention for being skinny!? In reality, ALL girls do!. Especially very young girls who are not yet confident with who they really "are" as a person!. She's lacking confidence and needs a role model!. Make sure she knows that there is more to beauty than bones!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Tell your friend that if shes not happy with the way she looks then she can diet and exercise which is the CORRECT and healthier way to lose weight!. People who choose to be anorexic or bulimic can get very sick and may even become ill enough where they are in the hospital!. Some people may even die from health problems like these!. So tell your friend that if she wants to lose weight, please do it the safe way because you don't want anything bad to happen to her!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
she needs psychiatric help!. thats what!. tell her mum now! u will kick urself if you wont coz one day, she could be in a hospital bed and dying!. do you want that!? there you go!., You HAVE to do the right thing!. tell her mum to keep an eye on her and her diet pills!. to make sure she is eating well and take her doctors!. u HAVE to do it FOR her!. she will hate you for it if she found out but who cares, atleast your saving her from alot of unhappiness and health issues!. thats what matters!. tell her mum not to give away that you told her and to pretend she found that her pills were finishing alot faster and wondering if anyone had dropped them on floor or something!.if you cant tell then tell your mum to tell her mum!. thats the best thing you could do for a friend!.hope you do the right thing by her!. just watch the episode of Hollyoaks of what happens to Hannahs friend and how she dies of anorexia and bulimia!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
well!.
ive been there too!.
while i only was annorexic for three weeks!.
the only thing i can say!.!.is DO NOT guilt trip her!.!.
it makes it worse!.!.like the only thing she could do would be to do that becuase she feels its the only thing she can control!.
im not quite sure how to help you but just please do not guilt trip her!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
ive been there too!.
while i only was annorexic for three weeks!.
the only thing i can say!.!.is DO NOT guilt trip her!.!.
it makes it worse!.!.like the only thing she could do would be to do that becuase she feels its the only thing she can control!.
im not quite sure how to help you but just please do not guilt trip her!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Anorexia is more than just not eating!. An anorexic will see themselves as being fat no matter how skinny and holocaust like they look!. There is probably nothing you alone can do if she really is an anorexic!. Youll have to bring someone else into the situation!. (mayber her mom)Www@Answer-Health@Com
many people do this for attention but if you dont think that that is it then just tempt her with foods that she likes that are healthy it may just be a phase and she could grow out of itWww@Answer-Health@Com
trust me she doesnt want to!.
i have bulimia and it screws up everything
seriously tell her about the consequences
like im serious
it only leads to death
i would never want anyone to go through thisWww@Answer-Health@Com
i have bulimia and it screws up everything
seriously tell her about the consequences
like im serious
it only leads to death
i would never want anyone to go through thisWww@Answer-Health@Com
People can die from starving themselves!. Tell her that!. I'm 5'1" and dropped down to 70lbs from loss of appetite due to depression!. I was forcing myself to drink Ensure Plus so that I wouldn't die!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Though you might lose a friend, tell her parents so they can intervene to help her!. That would really be a friend!.Www@Answer-Health@Com