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Helping a friend with an eating disorder

My friend is bulimic. She has been for a couple of years now. She was in a program and got help for what they called "exercise bulimia", but it seemed to be only a temporary solution. She has not gotten better at all from what I can see. I love her and want to help her. What can I do without making the situation worse?

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RE: Helping a friend with an eating disorder



Anorexia and bolemia are serious eating disorders that are difficult to correct. You should not delude yourself into thinking that you could help. She needs professional help and should be encouraged to seek it and to start a corrective program and not stop. In that respect you could help with your encouragement.


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RE: Helping a friend with an eating disorder



The best support you can give requires you to help her find a medical professional/program that will help her get better. You can read more about helping at the links I've pasted below. Good luck!

Medicinenet.com

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You can't fix it, just be there for her. Accept her illness as you would any other illness in a friend, like high cholesterol or Asama, those don't get in the way of friendship but they do require changing some patterns, like if a friend of mine have high cholesterol, I'm not going to take her to a steak restaurant - that would be unfair and niether of us will have fun.

So, just go on being her friend and don't try to cure her. don't mention the eating disorder unless she does, and don't make any remarks on her looks even if she look wonderful, instead compliment her a lot about other parts in her life, like kindness, success at work, being talented and so on.

Also, I would probably avoid seeing her in restaurants, instead, go to the museum or park or places that are not food related. 


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tell her to mail me on sharona@bat-zona.com

I was bolemic for 11 years. perhaps I can understand her and help her.


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First educate yourself read about it at

http://www.eatingdisordersonline.com/explain/bulimia.php

then check out a clinics for your friend 


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