Bit of a weird question this

[LittleEpidemic]

Right youre gonna have to work a little to keep up.
My best friend goes to a different school to me and one of her friends recently admitted to being bulimic. I dont know how long shes been bulimic or anything other than she eats one meal a day and pukes that up. Shes fainted 5times recently so im guessing shes only had the eating disorder a short time.
So my friend was asking me what she should do to help her friend because she knows i come on vt alot.
not knowing an answer i thought i should as you lot.

In short the question is how do you help a bulimic person get
better?
Thankies (:

[Myrnodin]

Honestly? Its not easy, and its not nice. The thing is, since she is not eating, her brain isnt getting its energy dose, because of that, her psychological functions are not... functioning... Long story short: Without eating, nothing you tell her is gonna work, simply because her brain cant process it, therefore she has to be "forced" to eat, and then shes gonna need some therapy. And those two things are better off done by a professional.

I know this may sound a little dramatic (i tend to sound so...) but its pretty much the way it is. You should tell someone (her school counselor maybe) so she can get proper health care before its too late.

Regards,

- Josh

[Ambrosia]

Well you need her to admit to it first and she has to want help. You can't exactly help someone who doesn't want to be helped! As long as she is even a bit willing to get the help needed---or to start getting the help needed---then good. If she can admit it's a problem she is already on the road to recovery.
People always say telling an adult will help but in some cases not. If she is fainting like this then it is probably a good idea to tell someone. Because of the fact that it is already taking a toll on her health it can lead to even worse issues that are irriversible.

[georgiamay]

Right youre gonna have to work a little to keep up.
My best friend goes to a different school to me and one of her friends recently admitted to being bulimic.

If she's admitted it, it probably means she wants to get better. If someone with an eating disorder doesn't want to get better, it would be unlikely that they will admit to it.


I dont know how long shes been bulimic or anything other than she eats one meal a day and pukes that up.

Bulimics tend to binge and then purge. If she's bulimic, she probably eats a meal a day, but it's a very big meal. From what I understand anyways, I could be wrong, but bulimia is known for binging and purging.

Shes fainted 5times recently so im guessing shes only had the eating disorder a short time.

I have a friend who had an eating disorder for about 3 years. She didn't start fainting until she'd had the eating disorder for 2 years. Different people are effected in different ways, don't assume it's been going on for a short amount of time, she could have just been hiding it really well.


In short the question is how do you help a bulimic person get
better?

Well, people with eating disorders need to get professional help so that they can overcome it properly. It's not just a case of not throwing up after eating. Eating disorders are mental illnesses, and take a lot of work to recover from. So some how convincing her to seek professional help would be a good thing to do. If she doesn't want to, maybe tell her parents or a school councellor. If you do that though, I'd recommend telling her that that's what you're going to do, otherwise she'll lose all of her trust in people.

But other than getting her to see a professional, I'd say just being there for her. Letting her know that she's not alone, and that she has someone to turn to at all times.

[Fiction]

As everyone else has said, she will need help.
It kind of sounds more like purging type Anorexia, as Bulimia is more binging and purging, but we can't diagnose her.