We have been best friends since I was in first grade and she was in kindergarden. We have always lived right down the street from eachother. We were inseperable and always mistaken for sisters. Over the past year or so, she has somehow convinced herself that she is not beautiful enough for society and decided to starve herself to lose weight. She has always been a very short and skinny girl to start with so over time she has actually developed into what looks like a holocaust surviver. She has recently been in 2 treatment hospitals and had actually just gotten home from one. But I have just gotten word that she has hit her lowest weight of 78 pounds and that her body is slowly but surely shutting down...
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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What have the demons done?
Even she knows she needs to go back to treatment.
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Get lost and then get found, or swallowed in the sea
She has a strength in her that I haven’t seen in a while. A spark. It’s faint, but it makes me hopeful. Hopeful that one day she will be healthy, and be able to go to college, get a job, fall in love, and have children. But if all she continues to care about is weight those things won’t happen. They could. They will if she stays strong. Please, if you could read this, just to make me feel better, send her prayers, good vibes, hope for her, wish for her, whatever it is you do to wish someone the best. She could become so much if she overcomes this.
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we are not our failures: Helping a loved one with an eating disorder
Helping a loved one with an eating disorder
If you notice the warning signs of an eating disorder in a friend or family member, you may be hesitant to say anything out of fear that you’re mistaken, or that you’ll say the wrong thing, or you might alienate the person….
Tamara by trevrorforevror on Flickr.
Courtney's video
This is Courtney who decided to put her secret on YouTube and I thought you all might like to see the face this blog is about.
Can’t be stopped?
Courtney asked me to bring her to her nutritionist appt. on Friday because she doesn’t want her parents to know they are making her go back to get checked on because she is starting to lose several pounds…
