I have a friend and the year before last she started to have big problems with her weight. She was not at all fat before the problem started but she was slightly over-weight. She started to distance herself from our other friends and I, as we tried to talk to her and very soon after we drifted apart. Whilst she was very thin and suffering from bulimia and anorexia she started to get a lot of attention from boys, which of course she liked very much and she started to mess around with a number of different people. Whilst going out with one boy, at a party she met Seth and they instantly hit it off and started going out. Being very worried for her health we went to our head of year and she contacted Zara's parents. They had not seen that Zara was ill and were very surprised to get a call from Mrs Hill. Soon after Zara was given help and had to see the school nurse every week and also go to a clinic. People monitored what she ate and she was made to eat lunch. But as Zara's closest friend she told me everything, about how she still made herself sick, and refused to be weighed when she went to her help sessions. Our lives evolved around food as a desperately tried to convince her that she was not fat and tried to get her to have a better attitude towards eating. Soon after, she got better and we didn’t talk about it so much anymore, she gained some weight and went up from 4 1/2 stone to 7 stone in a year, she was happy with Seth and her life was going well again.
Then during our final GCSE year another friend went to her art teacher and told her that Zara had copied her final GCSE art piece from a book. This of course meant that Zara could of been excluded from school and removed from all her exams, meaning she would of just wasted two years of hard work. The allegations made were of course not true, however they had really upset Zara and all those who loved her. We again went to our head of year but this time she was not so sympathetic. She claimed that the allegations had never been made and that Zara was making it up to gain attention and because she was paranoid as a result of her anorexia. This was totally untrue as there were a number of witnesses. That was when things began to get worse again. None of us were in direct contact with the supposed 'friend' who made the accusation but that only made Zara hate her more.
Now a few months on I’m writing this post having just returned from a party to celebrate our results, all of us achieved really good grades including Zara. Last night we all got very drunk and it became clear, once again that she needs help. She is disillusioned about her size and wants to loose more weight. She lay on the bed, being sick because of all the alcohol, sobbing and telling me how she makes herself sick and will only eat bread and Ketchup. I think she wants to get better but at the same time wants to be thinner. It didn’t help that, that day she had found porn magazines in her boyfriends drawer with girls who had flat stomachs and hue breasts. Now she thinks that she isn’t good enough for him and is talking of dumping him and seeing another guy we know. She also brought up the fact that he cheated on her about six moths ago. I don't know what to do, I have a really sick friend and I don't know who can help her. She sees her parents as the enemies and cried even harder when I suggested that she talked to them, our head of year hates us all because of the whole art fiasco, and she has us, her friends but we can't do much other than support her. Please help; I just don't want my friend to get sick, like she was before. She needs help, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to get it. What do I do?
Then during our final GCSE year another friend went to her art teacher and told her that Zara had copied her final GCSE art piece from a book. This of course meant that Zara could of been excluded from school and removed from all her exams, meaning she would of just wasted two years of hard work. The allegations made were of course not true, however they had really upset Zara and all those who loved her. We again went to our head of year but this time she was not so sympathetic. She claimed that the allegations had never been made and that Zara was making it up to gain attention and because she was paranoid as a result of her anorexia. This was totally untrue as there were a number of witnesses. That was when things began to get worse again. None of us were in direct contact with the supposed 'friend' who made the accusation but that only made Zara hate her more.
Now a few months on I’m writing this post having just returned from a party to celebrate our results, all of us achieved really good grades including Zara. Last night we all got very drunk and it became clear, once again that she needs help. She is disillusioned about her size and wants to loose more weight. She lay on the bed, being sick because of all the alcohol, sobbing and telling me how she makes herself sick and will only eat bread and Ketchup. I think she wants to get better but at the same time wants to be thinner. It didn’t help that, that day she had found porn magazines in her boyfriends drawer with girls who had flat stomachs and hue breasts. Now she thinks that she isn’t good enough for him and is talking of dumping him and seeing another guy we know. She also brought up the fact that he cheated on her about six moths ago. I don't know what to do, I have a really sick friend and I don't know who can help her. She sees her parents as the enemies and cried even harder when I suggested that she talked to them, our head of year hates us all because of the whole art fiasco, and she has us, her friends but we can't do much other than support her. Please help; I just don't want my friend to get sick, like she was before. She needs help, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to get it. What do I do?