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Piper_charmed
03-08-2007, 09:26 AM
i have known her for years and she has never had any self confidence issues in the past. recently she has lost a lot of weight she has gone frome a size 14 to a size 6 in a matter of months. she still thinks she is fat and all she eats is cellery, lettice, half a tin of soup, toast and for breakfast she has porrage with water cause milk is too fatty. she refuses to believe she has a problem. all of our friends have notaced and even her parents have tried to explain that she needs to start eating right again but she is just obsessed with loosing weight... she never comes out anymore and spends most of her time exersizing and she has bruises and sores on her arms and legs that wont go away and whenever we try to say she has a problem she laughs it off she doesnt realise we are seriouse at all. today me and another friend went online to look up the signs of anorexia as we think she has this and found out she has 11 of the 12 signs so we all decided to tell a teacher who used to be a nurse and she is gonna tell a seniour member of staff but we are worried our friend will take it the wrong way and hate us.


we are so worried about her and i really need advice tbh we have tried everything to shock her into the fact she has a problem, we even wrote her a letter saying how we felt and how she is way to skinny now, she really looks pail and ill and we are affraid she is going to become seriously ill if this carries on. she is having sleep problems to and her periods have stopped and she wont acnoloedge the fact that it is because of the crazy diet that she is on. we have told her that she is only 16 and you shouldnt go on such an extream diet that young and it has been said every year in high skl to us never to go on a diet untill we are over 18 as it can cause harm in the future. she has done one of those BMA things and she knows she is underweight but still carries on to eat cellery at break and dinner, her tea is eaither one slice of toast with no butter or half a tin of soup and her breakfast is porrage with water, that must be horrible. i am really worried about her and we have tried everything we can think of to get her to realise her problem and i guess i am making this thread to get support or ideas that we can use in order to help her become the person she was.

Nooker
03-08-2007, 07:05 PM
Your friend has a serious problem & needs professional help really soon. She may be mad at you at first for trying to get her help but once she is helped, she will realize that you were just trying to help & save her. Her parents, someone, needs to get her some real help soon before it is too late.

eilz7
03-09-2007, 02:16 AM
Your friend has a serious problem & needs professional help really soon. She may be mad at you at first for trying to get her help but once she is helped, she will realize that you were just trying to help & save her. Her parents, someone, needs to get her some real help soon before it is too late.

^^ she really does need to get help. i had an eating disorder, but it took me almost a year to accept that i had one. and when my mum booked me into the psycatrists i hated her for a while, coz i thought that not really eating was better than eating unhealthy stuff.
it sounds just like anorexia. but your friend needs to realise that skinny isnt beautiful. curves are IN!!! i went from a size 14 to a size 2 before i realised i was sick. im now a size 8, and i do have "fat days" just like everyone else, but i wont stop eating again.
i really hope things go ok with your friend. it might be necessary for her to hate you for a bit, so she realised that you love her, and are just trying to save her.
alee
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