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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had to deal with a situation like this when DD was in grade 8 & 9. The eating disorder involved barely eating anything, taking extremely small portions, saying it was her favorite food, starring longingly at food, staring judgingly at kids who take more food than she did, that type of thing.

DD could see that this was a problem and not healthy, and we had talked a lot since grade four about typical female body issues and perceptions around diet and exercise. She was not affected by the eating.

But when this same girl started making threats about suicide to control friend behavior in the group, that did affect DD and she did start and unhealthy social media glamorized relationship with the ideas of depression and mental illness. At the time so many influencers etc were getting all kinds of attention for negative comments about themselves.

So I would just say that the eating disorder is probably the least of the issues, and there's likely a whole lot else going on for this girl in her home life.

Given the girls home life, I decided to inform the school counselor. The girl already was in therapy & on medications.

In my daughter's case, the friend was a really unhealthy friend in general and I was glad when the friendship ended.[/quote]

There is no evidence of an ED, so your doom post is unnecessary.[/quote]

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