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I have a friend who's been trying different ways to kill herself and nothing has worked for her and now she's stopped eating but she's already really skinny and I've never once heard her say she was fat and she's never had any interest in becoming anorexic until her brother died and she tried to OD and it didn't work. Do people ever become anorexic as a form of suicide or is it always because they want to be skinny?
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First...Anorexia is an eating disorder. Yes, most people who are anorexic starve themselves because they want to lose weight. Whether or not they are all ready thin isn't always a factor either. It's all about their body image, the image that they have of themself.
So, your friend could be anorexic because of poor self-esteem. However...
What you have said leads me to believe that you have reason to be suspicious that she might be attempting suicide. Attempting suicide by starvation is possible, and has been done before. For example, my great-grandmother slowly starved herself to death after suffering sexual abuse in a nursing home. Self-esteem had nothing to do with it. She had experienced something horrible, and couldn't cope. And so she used the only means that she had to kill herself. Your friend could be the same.
Whether or not your friend is anorexic because she wants to die or not isn't the problem. The problem is that she is obviously having trouble coping with the death of her brother. Her motives are unimportant. She has developed an extremely harmful eating disorder that could kill her, regardless of whether she wants to die or not.
I can't provide you with very much help. Neither can anyone else online. If you want to help your friend, you need to get someone else involved. Someone who can help you _help her_. Tell someone that you can trust, someone with the authority to bring about change. A family member, an authority figure, a teacher, a counselor, etc...You know where I am going with this.
They can help your friend seek professional help. Your friend probably needs psychiatric help of some sort.
I've been asked several difficult questions lately, and my answer is the same to all. If someone that you know is in serious trouble, involve someone that you trust, and seek professional help. And I will warn you, just as I have warned the others, your friend might become angry with you for doing so. However, whether or not she hates you isn't important in the long run. What is important in the long run is that she LIVES. Either way, you are doing the right thing. She may not appreciate your help, but you've possibly saved her life.
As always, I am here. Again, I can't provide you with much help. I can only guess at the problem and point in the right direction. But if you ever need someone to listen, feel free to contact me. I will do whatever I can, even if all I can do is talk to you.
I will keep you and your friend in my thought and prayers. I wish you both the very best...And until then...Adieu ;)
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Becoming anorexic can be caused by many different things not just because one wants to be skinny or thinks they are fat but this disorder can come from being overly stressed or depressed...saying that becoming anorexic would not be a form of suicide but just a symptom that could alert someone that the individual is stressed and needs help... when one is overly stressed or sad about a situation they tend to let themselves go and stop caring about things and the affect of that for some is they get fat because they turn to food for comfort and for others they turn away from food because they feel as though its something or the only thing they may have control of in their life...in any case your friend probably has just turned away from food because she is going through ruff times and does not know how to handle the situatuion which means she needs help or she might end up truly hurting herself...all in all your friend is not, not eating to get skinny but only cause she doesnt know what to do and i hope she can get help before something happens to her...hope my advice helped
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