Thomas wrote:Down to 129 lbs won't be long now!
Until what? Until you gain more weight? Until you lose more weight?
It is an absolute bu@#s#$& idea that “help” means other people in a community must beg, plead, or otherwise convince another person to eat or maintain a certain weight for their own good.
It’s like a person saying they haven’t brushed their teeth, so it “won’t be long now,” until they develop gum disease and their teeth fall out. As if, society or the community is supposed to offer some magical combination of words that convince this person to brush their teeth. Or is the community supposed to hold the person down and brush the person’s teeth for them so they don’t get bad teeth?
I get that anorexia is a mental pathology. Still, pragmatically there is no “help” that can be offered outside of conversation and then holding them down and force feeding them.
And you can’t force feed someone via the Internet. And even if you could, why? Let the person make their own path in life, even if you don’t agree with that path.
I wish you the best of luck, in whatever path you choose to take of your own free will.
And I wish anyone that comes across this thread the wisdom to recognize when a person doesn’t actually want help. It’s fake. It’s a BS request for help. It’s trying to manipulate strangers into some sense of responsibility for the choices this other person is making. In this sense, they can continue doing whatever they wish, yet blame the world for “not helping”.