AboutNafeesah Expertise I can answer just about all questions pertaining to eating disorders, but I can't give medical advice due to legal reasons. If you need medical advice please consult with a physician.
Experience I had an eating disorder from the age of 12 to 25 which was compulsive and binge eating disorder. I can help those who are battling eating disorders.
Education/Credentials Associates degree, bachelors degree, and certified nursing assistant
Question Hello, I need help with how to deal with an email I got from a friend.
"I just relaized last week that I've been doing this a ridiculous amount of time. I've always been really tiny, I'm 5'1 and just small, but I definitely matured fast than other girls and in 5 grade i had little tiny thought, but really nothing and then 6 grade I would try and restrict for just a little amount of time cause I could never last very long and then 7 grade I would restict for maybe 3 weeks at the most and lose weight and then binbge and gain it back and that was just like a cycle. and then at the end of 7 grade I started throwing up and freshman year was just the worst year ever because it got really bad. I have a lot of issues with my family A LOT. But I was in such a horrible place that I just wanted to get out, so I told my mom and stepdad. I wanted help, but I didn't think about actually having to stop. I went in an outpatient program and was in there for 9 months then graduated novmeber of my sophomore year but basically I lied my way to graduation. Like, I was deifnitely doing better, but by no means even close to any clear thinking. Then I started purging a lot again and I was pruging blood all the time and I was losing weight because I was on the swim team and purging and not eating and swimming 1 1/2 every day kinda takes a toll. so yeah, they put me in the hospital (even thought I didn't evem need to go) and then i went into inpatient and now I graduated again from my outpatient program. But that did not help."
Can you give me any idea about what I should say? Sorry for a long question!!
Concerned friend.
Answer Sounds like your friend needs to be in long term therapy for this and the fact that she lied to get out of treatment is pretty serious she sounds like she needs to still be in therapy to deal with some unresolved issues with her eating disorder. All you can say to her is that she needs to be in treatment to get herself completely well.
