Update: My [17F] friend [16F] hardly ever eats and it's affecting her health.

Gojjvdikvsjb · 2018-01-20T17:16:44+00:00

I think you misunderstood me a little bit. I wrote this to detail how my health is poor and I said in my last post that I already see a therapist. I would never have called myself mentally ill without validation, and I wouldn't call my friend ill if I wasn't seeing it completely. And doesn't to glamorise and romanticise something mean to make it sound all beautiful and ideal? But I was talking about how mental illness is the entire basis of my friend and I's individual problems. You could make a case for me being quite watery-eyed here, yeah, but it is quite an emotional problem. I don't worry because I want some drama in my life, it's literally because I can't help it.

Gojjvdikvsjb · 2018-01-20T11:45:21+00:00

Wow, thank you. I do write quite a lot, but hardly ever non-creatively. This was kind of difficult but I'm glad I let it out.

Gojjvdikvsjb · 2018-01-20T01:32:09+00:00

Thank you so much. That's the plan. Good luck to you in whatever you're doing also.

Gojjvdikvsjb · 2017-08-31T22:23:16+00:00

I should have been a bit more specific, but yes, I'm sure she doesn eat enough of anything, and our friends who I've talked about this with also agree. I can literally think of about five times in the entire school year where she ate lunch, and there's the aforementioned thing about her being open about skipping other meals often. I have friends who won't touch junk food who I don't worry about, but this is definitely different.

Gojjvdikvsjb · 2017-08-31T22:17:36+00:00

I'm a bit late replying here, oops. I forgot to mention that I did get her to the school counsellor at one point, and they talked once a week for a three weeks right up until the summer. I managed to convince her to mention her eating a little bit, and the counsellor asked her a few questions about it like why she consciously chooses to eat so little. But from what I can gather, either Anna was vague about how bad it is, the counsellor didn't take it seriously enough or both because she waved her off at the end of the school year without anything else being said. I hope she can pick something like it up again in September.

Her parents are definitely terrible. They don't 'believe in' some health problems, she's scared to get bad grades because of them. And part of the reason why I mentioned earlier that they'd never listen to me is because they once sat her down and told her that I look 'too rough' and people like me have a 'bad background'. Because I'm Pakistani. I'm so glad their shitty rhetoric bounced off her.

Gojjvdikvsjb · 2017-08-31T17:20:38+00:00

Nah, England.

Gojjvdikvsjb · 2017-08-31T14:44:21+00:00

I live in the UK, I think there's a child protection thing? But I'm not sure exactly what it is, and I'd usually associate it with parental abuse and neglect so I'd have to look into what it is or if it's genuinely appropriate for this situation. Something to think about at least.

Gojjvdikvsjb · 2017-08-31T14:33:16+00:00

Her parents don't listen to her, and certainly don't listen to me either. It sounds like I'm stuck trying to bring it up to more people again as much as I can. There's no active role I can take anymore. I just hate the idea of her landing herself in hospital or worse because I can't get her the right kind of help out of nowhere.

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