Well this is my first soapbox article.
I was thinking about creating a spot like this yesterday.
It was all about one of my best friends. She´s bulimic. My friends and I are really worried. It has been a month since we know.
Every time she eats she excuses her self to the bathroom with some stupid excuse like she needs to brush her teeth. We try to stop it, tell her she´s too thing and that its dangerous but she just refuses to listnen and denys it.
She is really thin now, everytime you touch her hair it falls as its has no force to keep on hold, her fingers are burnt and callous.
At the beginnig she was just irritable. Her humor changed so easily, she could be happy and talking to you and the next second she´ll just yell at you. We didn´t make much fuss about it we thought it was just a bad day. But she was getting worse and more irritable.
We knew something was wrong now but we never thought of that problem, we thought she had problems in her house or something. One day we all decided to go to eat after school.
We all went to McDonnalds, she ate a hamburger and some chips. Until there everything was alright, but when she finished she excused herself to the bathroom. When she got in one of my friends went too. She went in and heard her vomit. She came and told us. After that everything made sense. We knew this was serious and that we had to talk to her before it got any further.
So they decided it should be me who was going to talk to her, since I had eating disorders too and I could understand her the best.(I was nervous anorexic, I was so obssed getting high marks I never felt hungry so I stopped eating. Luckily enough my parents and friends noticed on time and send me to a psychologist who told me my health was more important than geting high marks.
I had support from everyone so I could get over it, hardly, as my stomach was nearly shut, but all my friends gave me courage and I really got out of this for them. I´ll always be thankfull for that. I thought my friend had learned something. Guess not.)
I talked to her but the only thing she did was deny it.
We´ve alredy talk to our school psychologist, but she still thinks she hasn´t got a problem. She ways 43Kg and still thinks she is fat.
We are really scared something happens to her. SO please if you have any suggestions please comment, I love to read them all and you could help my friends and I.
Thankyou
Silvia xx
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First of all, I think you are very brave for sharing your experiences with eating disorders, both your own experience and your friends. I also think it was very brave of you to confront your friend about her eating issues.
I think involving the school psychologist was definately the right thing to do. The school psychologist should be able set up more help for your friend. If it doesn't seem like the psychologist is doing enough, you should go back to them and insist that they do more to help.
It is very sensitive topic and it can be very difficult to discuss. I think you are being an excellent friend and your support, while it may not be appreciated fully by your friend right now, will be hugely influntial in helping her.
I really hope your friend gets the help that she needs. I can tell that she has a great support system in you and your friends. :)
Thank you so much for sharing this.
I honestly am yet to go through something like this (thank God), but I think you should ask an adult. Maybe your therapist, parents, or guidance councelor? I hope this helps.
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