Anorexia Athletica

[Anonymous]

My sister has Anorexia Athletica. Would should I do? I'm pretty sure she has it. She eats a lot of food, and works out, sometimes for 5 hours, in our basement.

[Anonymous]

no, my parents are British! They wont understand! I want to get help for her, but it wont be help if they get involved!

[Shaolin]

Alot of girls have issues with self confidence and insecurities about their body image and the way they look.

It's perfectly normal for a girl to feel as if she is fat and try and lose weight. Usually it's just a phase, but if it's prolonged and she starts getting boney, and i mean you can see her ribcage and the skin is just stretched over the bones, then you know she has a problem.

Otherwise id leave her to it. Fitness programmes are hard to stick to. If you want to help even more, supporting and talking to her or even joining in on her gym activity would be helpful.

[lolly_manson]

Um, that illnes is Bulimia, not Anorexia. There are two kinds of Bulimia - the 1st is - binging and purging by making yourself sick or taking laxatives and the 2nd is (like your sister) you eat and then exrecise too much. I disagree that someone needs help only when you can see his/her ribcage, but that us maybe just for Anorexia, `cause it`s a bit more dangerous (I mean that you must try and help her from the beginnig not waiting `till it`s too late). But Bulimia like your sister`s (only exercising) isn`t so dangerous, `cause she eats and gets everything her body needs from food, but it`s still an illnes. `Cause sometimes the mental is more important then te physical - I mean that if she`s exercising so much she feels bad about herself and is obsessed. The worst part is that if someone doesn`t stop her on time it might get worse - she might start puking or just not eating. But if I knew how to help, I would help myself... so why don`t you take her to a psycholog or something... That might help. And I want to say that I respect you so MUCH for trying to help her and worrying so much and even write in a forum... That`s the first step to someone`s recovery - we just want to know that someone cares about us. Thank you so much for helping your sister! :)

[Serenity]

While your reply was admirable, this thread is more than 3 years old. Please don't bump threads like this in the future.

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