On my knees for you's Journal (original) (raw)

This is an appeal to all who are/have been through anorexia.

There is this girl in my school who is so obviously anorexic. It really hurts to look at her. What was once a vibrant beautiful girl, is now only a shadow of her former self. I don't know this girl very well, but I want to help. I need to help. Everyone knows about it, teachers, students...

And she gets absolutely mad when someone comfronts her. This is why I haven't spoken to her. I don't know her well and it would seem stupid to hear me, who is a bit on the chubby side, tell her she has an eating disorder. And she should have noticed by now that she is anorexic, but she is doing absolutely nothing about it.

Everytime she stands up, and we all get a good view of her legs (better to say, her bones, because that is all she has. For only bones can be that thin), I fear she will break. Fragile indeed. Made of the thinnest glass.

And this is why I need advice. How do you tell a person that seems to be in denial, that what she is doing is wrong? That she is beautiful the way she originally was? She thinks so little of herself, I know this from her friends. Also, I was sitting next to her when she told the other person she didn't have a boyfriend because "they were all too good for her".

I beg of you, advice, from people who know best how to deal with an anorexic, and the state of mind she is currently in.

How do you help?

For she is quickly withering into nothingness, and I don't think that is the goal.