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The Aftershocks Caused by Anorexia.
Anorexia from a friend's point of view

Consider this- you're playing a simple card game with your friend, like Go Fish. She's down by a few pairs, therefore, she is loosing. You know she needs the card, but she doesn't ask for it. You start to inquire and question around. However, she still doesn't acknowledge that she needs that card, and just says, "pass." So you figure, "no big deal." With the exception of one thing, the card game you two are playing is not a card game at all; you two are laying a bet on life or death. The only Joker in the end is not the card; it's you. What do you do? In reality you know she was loosing, and giving you hints, but you go into denial and ignore them. Here is what I felt and the stages I went through when the cards were laid in front of my eyes.

My first step was denial. Everything that she told me I rejected. All of her warning signs, everything. I just kept putting it off and saying, "it's probably just a stage she's going through. She'll get over it." And that's the cold-hard truth; I thought it was just a stage because there are plenty of sixteen-year-old high school students who say they're "fat." I should've said something when she told me what her diet was. She ate no more then 500 calories a day. Then when she got home she would exercise for at least an hour and a half. Burning of most, if not more, of what she was in taking wasn't good. For a while I didn't do anything but watch her get thinner and thinner.
Then she told me that she weight 90 pounds. That's when I started to worry. I did everything I could toward getting her to eat. I went to her in the "educational" approach first. I told her that fat and calories were two different things. And that calorie was just another word for energy. The last thing that I told her was that it was okay to exercise, as long as you are eating three full meals a day (in taking at least 2200-2500 calories a day.) That didn't work. So one night I called her up and tried talking to her about her illness. She kept saying that everything was fine. Which defiantly wasn't true. You could tell that she wasn't well because of the way she acted. She changed completely. She went form an outgoing, loud person to a quiet, keep-to-yourself type of person. Which really worried me because I thought she was shutting off from the world and her body. So the night I got off the phone with her I browsed the Internet about anorexia. Sorry to say it wasn't much help

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