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Chicken1

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Hi everyone. Just want a bit of advice. I think my mate has got an eating disorder. She constantly exercises and feels fat. I found out she has been taking laxatives she took 70 tablets in 3 days! She won't let anyone help her. She insists she hasnt got a problem and gets all defensive. I don't know what to do. I'm so worried
 
She needs an intervention with the laxatives. 70 tablets in 3 days is excessive and harmful. Exercising everyday isn't a bad thing...but the image you say she has of herself isn't healthy. If she's fat, she's fat. Exercise and proper diet like the rest of us are trying to do.

If she's reluctant to listen to you, try to do some research on the negative side effects of excessive laxatives and show it to her. Sit down with her, tell her it's because you care and you want her to stay sexy but not at the cost of her health or even her life. Present her with solutions. Maybe volunteer to work out and eat with her so you can make sure she doesn't get out of hand with the exercise or the laxatives, etc. Partners help.

Hope that was worth something. Just my humble suggestions, as I am dieting myself.
 
Chicken1 said:
Hi everyone. Just want a bit of advice. I think my mate has got an eating disorder. She constantly exercises and feels fat. I found out she has been taking laxatives she took 70 tablets in 3 days! She won't let anyone help her. She insists she hasnt got a problem and gets all defensive. I don't know what to do. I'm so worried
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Try getting your mate to go to the doctor for some advice taking laxatives. If she has a problem with constipation, they can help her. 70 tablets in 3 days, she is messing the lining of stomach up! My DH had an Aunt who took laxatives all the time. She died from taking too many laxatives.

Good luck to you both!!
 
Chicken1- I used to take laxatives myself and I also used to make myself sick for a while. Nothing to the extremes that it sounds like your friend is doing, but still I was very ill. Unfortunately your friends problem is psychological and the best advice I can offer would be to see if she will go to counseling. Often there is some trauma or life event that triggers these illness's and makes you feel not worthy or unattractive. I had something very awful happen to me when I was 17 and that triggered my illness a year and a half later. Just be there for her as much as you can and rather than nag at her, try and make her feel good with occasional compliments about how great she looks. A little goes a long way.
Also see if you can reduce the laxatives that she is taking because eventually she will not be able to go to the toilet without them.
I hope that I have been some help. If you need anymore advice, dont hesitate to contact me.
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She needs help quick because this has already gotten to far. Try to get her to seek professional help because I know people that have died from eating disorders.

Keep telling her that she looks fine any you really don't want anything to happen to her. It would be good for her to talk with someone that has overcome an eating disorder.

This way she would be more in tune to someone that has had the same problem. Hang in their with her and don't give up!
 
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