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How do I hide anorexia from my friends?
i am 13 years old, i am 5'8 and i weigh 123 lbs. and i desperatley need help hiding not eating from my friends. i am not looking for some lecture, because trust me i've gotten many of them from friends. can someone just please tell me how i can hide it, dont waste your time lecturing me because i'm not going to listen. my mom notcied a bit that i'm not eating but my dad didnt notice anything, but one day i was talkin to my friend and she said "how come you dont eat, is there a reason?" and then i regret saying it, but i said "no, you know i am just anorexic because i feel like it". and now some of my other really close friends know and they think i am eating now but i dont know how much longer i can hide from them. they want me to go see a docter and to get help and to tell my parents. someone please help me here!
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look im not going to lecture you if you dont want me to, if you are ready to end your life so young then do what you please.. i dont care for rateings so you dont have to rate a 1 or something just to let me know you didnt like what i just said ... any way, a way to hide your anorexia.. try to explain to them that you just ate or something and for your parents.. i guess you could be like im going to my room to eat, my show is on tv or something and go throw it away or something, or tell them you just ate before you got home and youll eat later wen your not so full. hope i helped. good luck.
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I am a great deal older than most of the advisers on this site, so my advice will be somewhat different from what you have received and may continue to receive from others.
I am going to try not to lecture you; the other two Advisers’ have done a good job at telling you what you are doing to yourself. You know the name for your problem so you must also know that this is an illness not a lifestyle. You also must know that if this illness goes untreated you could die.
Your body is for the most part a chemical reactor. It turns the food you eat in to chemicals, mostly electrolytes, the body needs to operate properly. If you do not supply the proper chemicals the reactor (your body) becomes unstable. Your reactor will do all it can to save itself shutting down different systems in an attempt to provide the diminishing chemicals to the most vital organs. First your Kidneys will shut down, then your Liver and finally your Heart.
At some point there will be a medical intervention as you will no longer be able to hide your condition from your parents. There is no guarantee this intervention will be successful; it all depends on how badly you have damaged the vital organs of your body. The long and short of what you are doing is you are committing a very painful form of suicide.
You have not said why you are anorexic? Most anorexics have a reason; what is yours?
Please do not hide what you are doing to yourself from your parents. Instead tell them, tell them why and let them get you the medical help you need.
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It's been said a thousand times before on Advicenators and i'll say it again;
NO ONE IS GOING TO HELP YOU KILL YOURSELF!
Or hide the fact that you are killing yourself!
I dont want to scare you but that IS what you are doing, you are already dangerously underweight.
I know you dont want a lecture but take advice from someone who's been there 8 years ago and is suffering in ways you wouldnt believe.
I dropped down to 6 stone (that was a loss of 2 stone in less that 2 months).
Apart from the physical effects it had on my body and is still having on my body now even though i've put the weight back on, the weakening of bones, teeth, nails, very dry skin, high risk of ostio persosis, i'm 25 years old now and I can't even bend down or stand up without agonising pain in my knees and ankles, the god awful stomach panins and discomfort, diarea, contipation, anxiety, depression (especially when your in an eating disorders clinic/hospital).
Apart from all that, the metal side has been touturous.
Your going to get to the point (if you havent already) where you are feeling so ill that you don't feel well enough to be with your family and friends, when feeling ill is making you anxious so much so that you want to be on your own.
That happend to me after about a year, and as a result, i'm agoraphobic and social phobic, and i mean to the exteme point where i cannot see my family because it causes panic attacks, i lost all my friends, had to quit college.
Do you really want to become some ill recluse?
before i stopped eating, i was adventurous, fun, so happy, sociable, and now i can't even see my family, i can't go shopping in town with my friends like i used to, i can't work, i'm having panic attacks every single day and all those symptoms i mentioned before, thats an everyday thing, i havent had 1 single days where i've felt well in 8 years!
Please, don't do it to yourself, its horendous and i wouldnt wish it on anybody.
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There is no way to hide anorexia. Not eating in front of your friends looks suspicious. Your body changes a lot physically as well, so there really is no way to hide it.
I'm not trying to lecture you, but you're 13 years old & you're not doing anything good for a body that's still growing. You really need to tell your parents sweetheart. I'm not saying any of this to be rude or nosy or anything, but if you keep up being anorexic, you're going to die. Please tell your parents & get help. It's to save your life and make sure that you get yourself back to normal & back to being healthy.
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