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i'm really worried about my friend and so i was just sort of wondering how people become anorexic, like do they slowly start cutting out their food or just one day decide to start eating as little as possible? also do they do it deliberatley or does it just sort of happen?
thank you
Its good that your concerned about your friend.
Becoming anorexic is a different process for everyone. Usually it is sparked by drastic changes in someones life or a lowering in someones self concience. For me it was the stress of my grandparents deaths within a month of each other.
It usually begins as a sort of diet. so you'd think from now on i'll not eat chocolate, then after a while i wont eat fatty foods and then now i won't eat carbohydrates. After that we may control how many calories we eat at each meal by decreasing portion sizes. By doing this they may start skipping meals. It becomes a stort of ritual and if you give in or fail then you've lost.
So in answer to your question in a way it does happen over time but it is usually triggered by something drastic.
As anorexics we try to become thin deliberatly but we didn't wake up one morning and say oh i'll become anorexic today. The desire to be thin is not always the only reason, for me i wanted some control over my life.
Please carry on trying to help your friend. Talk to people and get him/her the right help, fast. I'm lucky i'm slowly recovering from anorexia but i've seen how bad anorexia can get.
Your a good friend xxxx
your right - I think Im anorexic but I cant stop it!!! gone down from 9st to 5st in 2 month... you have toask your friend:
are you cold
have your periods stooped (depending on age)
do you think your fat
if she goes skelital then do not tell her she looks better and she should stop, tell her she looks like she is a skeliton and is about to collapse. It helped me realise that I was anorexic and now I am TRYING to recover
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