should i tell an adult or will i loose her trust?!


Question: Should i tell an adult or will i loose her trust?
okay so im going to explain from the beginning. my friends parents are very streaked and heavy religious! and her sister is very successful in everything she dose. perfect grade, friends. (from what i heard) okay well my friend told me yesterday that she starves herself. she is supper!! skinny. and i asked why, and she said she needed to be punished for her mistakes. (which im assuming grades,drinking,cursing,sleeping with her boyfriend, sneaking out..etc.) i did not no what to say. advice please!

Answers:

I would talk to her first. She can develop very serious complications from anorexia because her body is being severely malnourished, this includes heart disease, bone loss, and irreversible organ damage in all her organs. I'm not trying to scare you, but she could die too. There are better, and more appropriate ways of "self-punishment" than starving yourself. Instead, she can not let herself watch TV or read a favorite book or something. But it sounds to me like she has Anorexia, and is just using punishing herself as an excuse to not eat. It doesn't really make sense to do something knowingly and then willingly punish yourself later, that isn't very logical thinking. 'I'll sleep with my boyfriend, it's okay I'll just not eat later.' If she isn't anorexic, and she honestly thinks along those lines, she likely has some kind of mental issues going on and needs help.

I would talk to her about the risks and see how she reacts. If you don't think she will stop, I would tell someone--even if you loose her trust. If she were my friend who I really cared about, I would risk loosing her if it meant saving her life. I would rather my friend be alive and safe, even if they hated me. If you think her parents are punishing her this way, then I would tell a school counselor instead.
So, talk to her first and if she doesn't stop, talk to her parents or counselor. Either way, she has to stop, it is just too dangerous and she could end up with bad health problems or even die.



You know your friend more than anyone on yahoo answers.
Is she the type who's doing this to get attention?
Or could you simply tell her the risk she's taking and she'll stop?
It's up to you, but maybe you just need to tell her that every single person makes mistakes, you don't see the every person in the world emaciated and starving themselves. It's unnecessary for her to be doing this.



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She is weird, all of her so called sins are not sins in moderation.

Well, tell her, starving yourself might lead peptic ulcer.

It will lead to malnourished condition of the body and can be chronic to other worse illness.

Starving also can cause memory loss.

Death also is possible .



Talk to her about what you should do, give her advice and just be her friend :) Hope everything works out




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