Have also put this on the Relationships thread as I wasn't sure where it fitted. People on this topic have always been amazing in the past for me.
I'm very very worried about my mum. To cut a long story short, she has always had issues with food. She was a plump child, and although never fat as an adult, she has always had quite a warped view of her size and strange food habits. I was anorexic at university and after a lot of therapy am now very well (and proud of myself for being so) and understand a lot of where it stemmed from including my mother's influence. (She is 68 by the way).
Anyway, 18 months ago my brother died. Bloody awful time for my family and understandable that my mum should lose weight. She lost loads. But it wasn't so much the weight loss, it was the behaviour that accompanied it. It's basically anorexic behaviour. Now she is a size 6 (approximately - I base that on the fact that she fits into a size 8 dress that I used to wear pre-kids and there was room in it) and tells us how thin she is with a strange mixture of pride and anxiety, which I so recognise from my illness. She is also incredibly defensive if you raise it with her, saying that she eats loads and always telling us how much chocolate she eats (trouble is, sometimes two chocolates are the only food she'll eat all day).
She was staying the other day and I saw her in her nightie - her body looked like a teenager's. So I am very very worried. And I just don't know what to do. Can anyone offer me some help please?