Right
now I am so stressed out because of my friend Erin. I just want to say we are
not dating or anything, we are simply friends. In September of 2012, I started
to notice that she kept making comments about people’s weights and about how
fat she thought she was. I was worried so I tried telling her that she was
beautiful and didn’t need to lose weight. She didn’t believe me. I
thought/hoped that it was just a phase.
I
believe in November she asked me something that felt like a stake through the
heart. She asked if I had any tips to lose weight. Yes I do have a lot of
weight loss tips but are they safe? No! For god sakes my heart has
almost stopped on more than one occasion! Immediately I gave her a hug. I can’t
tell you how sad I felt. I am not joking when I say that I almost cried. I
want no one to ever endure the torture that I went through. Erin is such a
sweet, lovely girl and she does not deserve something evil like Anorexia.
After
she asked me, I asked my mom for advice. I told her I was afraid that Erin was
developing an eating disorder. My mom waved it off and told me that is her
business and not to worry about it. Well what she said was not what I did. I
started to watch her during lunch and noted that she ate smaller portions than
she did the year before.
A
few days later, I decided to talk to my teacher Mr. Anderson. Mr. Anderson
knows that I have been struggling with an eating disorder for over a year now.
I told him that Erin had asked me for weight loss tips and that she kept saying
how fat she was. He promised that he would talk to Erin and not mention my name.
Call
my paranoid, call my crazy but I don’t care. Anorexia took so much from me and
I want no one to ever go through the hell I went through.
James
*Names
have been changed to protect the individuals privacy.
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