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writes:Hello everyone,I'm getting a little worried about my friend, we are in our last year of school and are both going to different colleges this year and she has recently opened up to me about how unhappy she feels with herself. She use to get bullied in primary school for being over weight, she was never fat just a little bigger than the other kids. She seems to see herself as really fat and ugly and she is going a little extreme. She is only a size 12 but says she wants to be at least a size 8 or her dream would be to be a size 6, she is always measuring herself and calorie counting and she has done silly things before such as overdosing on laxatives and trying to make herself sick. She said she is going to go vegan and eat very little calories (around 300-500 a day) which she has done before and I'm really worried about her, she seems so depressed when she does a different extreme diet and she is now taking diet pills, colon flow pills and enzymes because she thinks they will break down her extra fat. She takes 10 pills a day and I'm really scared she will overdose again and damage herself, she did it before on vitamin tablets when she tried to use them as an alternative to food. She said she goes all day without eating but tends to binge on carbohydrates when she gets home and she's sick of that happening, I just feel a bit concerned for her because when we went shopping at the weekend she had to keep sitting down because she hadn't eaten and felt light headed. I don't know how I can try and prove to her she isn't fat and help her lose weight a healthy way. I know her mum has tried to help her and is worried she has an eating disorder and has tried to starve herself before but my friend just sees her mum as wanting her to be fat because she thinks her mum is jealous of her being young. She told me she did research on foods and is planning on eating nothing but spinach as it contains many vitamins and minerals for about 30 days, I know she's determined enough to do this but what will it do to her? Please help thank you xoxo
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reader, k_c100 +, writes (29 May 2012):
 Your friend definitely has an eating disorder, and she needs to get professional help. Speak to her parents, and if there is a counsellor at your school or a health care specialist then talk to them as well.
You cant help her I'm afraid, she is very poorly and needs professional help. All you can do is be supportive, stand by her and try and talk her out of diets as much as you can.
I hope this helps and good luck!
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reader, anonymous, writes (29 May 2012): firstly, if u can please talk your friend out of going on a spinich only diet, although spinich is very good for you, if eaten in excess it can cause calcium deficiencys so it will have a bad effect on her bone density if shes not careful.
dont take this on, on your own as your friend clearly isnt listening to you, she certainly sounds like she has a big problem and you need to tell somebody who can get the ball rolling and help her like a teacher or her parents, no1 should be going without food like that or taking pills and laxatives they can be really dangerous. she will see it as a breech of confidence but in the long run she will come to realise that you told some1 because you love her and you care about her health. maybe if she genuinly feels over weight perhaps she sould join a slimming class like weight watchers where they will have trained people there who can give her true honest advice and help her to lose what ever it is she needs to with out harming herself.
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