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Did you ever wake up and wonder when your life became a soap opera? A bizzare mixture between 'Dawson's Creek' and 'Days of our Lives'?



I know I've had that feeling - that it's just all too dramatic and ridiculous, and wouldn't it be nice to go and under a nicely-furnished rock for a while? So, whilst I do not promise or claim to be an expert on how teenage boys minds work or how you can uncode your best friend's baffling behaviour, I'll always attempt to empathise and offer some honest words of advice.



I am 21, with a fairly dysfunctional life as a artsy student type. I've recently graduated with a degree in Philosophy, and am spending time working in the law before returning to university for further study. I still don't know what I want to do with my life, but I like where I am at the moment. I like shoes, bad television, chocolate cheescake and pretty things.



I am very busy at the moment, attempting to fund my life as a postgraduate (that's grad school to the Americans). I do still stop by quite a lot to help out with the admin stuff, but my column is pretty lame and inactive. Boo-hiss. I will however still endeavour to answer any questions that are sent my way, so feel free to send questions to my inbox.





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ok first of all im not going to amifat.com or any website like that bcuz i dont trust them, i'd rather get advice from real people my age etc. so don't tell me to go to any website.

I've always been really skinny. People always think im anorexic and all my friends are like where do u put ur food? But i dont get my period every month probably because of it so i don't know how healthy my weight is. I'm about 5'6 and weigh about 103. Do YOU think thats healthy. Some of those crazy sites have told me it's not, and i wanna no what u think. thanx



You are too skiny. In fact, you are dangerously underweight. I don't even need to look at the figures to know that - the evidence that your weight has dropped so low that your periods have stopped is evidence enough - it means your body is unable to function as it should because you are so slim.

Do you have any idea what you are doing to yourself? You could be permanently damaging your body and reducing your fertility. I'm sorry that this seems a harsh answer, but it seems to me you need it. These websites are not "crazy" or biased, they are pure number cruchers. They are telling you you are underweight because you ARE. First, talk to a sympathetic relative - mother, sister, older cousin - then get them to accompany you to the doctor and/or diertician.

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what do u mean "Do you have any idea what you are doing to yourself?". OMG ur so judgemental! u've never seen me! what am i doing to myself?? i eat normal and exersize. im tall and skinny i cant help it! im not dangerously underweight. hate to break it to u but ur NOT a doctor.



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