waves hello, long-time lurker here who finally needs some advice of her own.
I'm starting to worry that one of my housemates has an eating disorder. I don't know a whole lot about symptoms but i know there are different types? She isn't being sick or anything but constantly says things and acts in a way that worries me and others living here.
She isn't weighing food or anything but she doesn't really seem to eat and never joins us for a house meal (it's usually something hearty like pasta or stew) she will disappear up to her room with an apple and if she sees any of the rest of us eating during the day gives us what I can only describe as a dirty look. She once saw me go to town on a bag of crisps at a kind of picnic lunch we were having and I laughed and said I had no self-control, then she looked me up and down as if to say 'obviously' - It was a bag of crisps fgs! The really weird thing though I get the feeling she tries to 'sabotage' the rest of us if we're trying to lose weight - that might be me being paranoid though as I do struggle with mine.
She constantly makes excuses to go up and down the stairs like she's 'forgotten' something but it seems like exercise? And if she's asked what she's having for lunch or dinner or whatever says things like 'skip dinner, wake up thinner' and laughs. Her shelf in the fridge is literally just apples and lettuce. She takes a lot of supplements for iron and stuff.
One of our other housemates said she thinks she has anorexia. If you try and challenge her on eating she says things that are to be frank, very nasty about overweight people or even people who aren't but she seems to perceive anyone over a ten as 'fat'. She has said she can't be anorexic because she is 'fat' (she's like a 10-12 maybe?)
What do I do? Try and talk to her more? She's very defensive and tbh everyone else has given up.