I have a question for you, I really hope you can help.
A person in my life is very strange with food. She goes through periods of "dieting" she calls it, but eats VERY little. She will eat an apple, orange and a banana and thats it for the whole day. She will do this for weeks and weeks on end and lose 30 pounds in a month. She will get to her goal and then slowly creep back up again. She looks great the way she normally is and when she loses the weight, she looks gaunt and sickly. Its really scary.
Here's the catch. She does these behaviors out in the open; the family is completely aware of it. No one says anything to her or behind her back about this fucked up behavior. No one seems to think she is sick! The worst part is I think she's jeopardizing her academia while she is "dieting". She has big dreams, but how can you function while you're brain is literally starving. I am worried that she will damage her organs from all this abuse and she will end up not being able to keep a normal healthy weight because she's completely fucked her metabolism.
Do you think this is a disorder? How do I help her?
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I have a question for you, I really hope you can help.
A person in my life is very strange with food. She goes through periods of "dieting" she calls it, but eats VERY little. She will eat an apple, orange and a banana and thats it for the whole day. She will do this for weeks and weeks on end and lose 30 pounds in a month. She will get to her goal and then slowly creep back up again. She looks great the way she normally is and when she loses the weight, she looks gaunt and sickly. Its really scary.
Here's the catch. She does these behaviors out in the open; the family is completely aware of it. No one says anything to her or behind her back about this fucked up behavior. No one seems to think she is sick! The worst part is I think she's jeopardizing her academia while she is "dieting". She has big dreams, but how can you function while you're brain is literally starving. I am worried that she will damage her organs from all this abuse and she will end up not being able to keep a normal healthy weight because she's completely fucked her metabolism.
Do you think this is a disorder? How do I help her?
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