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AIBU to have felt so utterly awful about a woman

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Clossaintjacques · 02/11/2011 16:46

with what I suspect must be an eating disorder putting herself through a punishing work out at the gym today. I felt so terrible seeing her that I had a strong urge to going over and asking her to please stop.

Just to be clear this woman was not simply naturally skinny she was very very underweight with the white downy hair people get when they don't eat. She couldn't have weighed much more than 5 stone at a guess.

I just felt I wanted to step in and stop her exercising but obviously it is none of my business and I am not qualified to help so I didn't. However, I feel strangely guilty about watching someone so dangerously under weight doing exercise for such a long time.

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Clossaintjacques · 02/11/2011 19:14

It's seems about 50:50 whether I should discreetly speak to the gym. I probably won't say anything but it feels incredibly wrong not to also.

In regard to end of the scale morbidly obese people I do get frustrated when I see family members or friends enabling them to eat buckets of food too. I think some people just can't either stop eating or stop not eating!

Are these kind of extreme eating disorders a relatively new phenomenom?

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