Hi I’m a jr high schooler and I have an amazing Christian friend who is struggling with an eating disorder. She is a real light for Christ and a joy in my life, but her light is muffled by this horrible thing. It is worsened a ton by the comments of her parents “you don’t want to be fat for the choir performance? Just don’t eat or drink for a bit” “you eat too many sweets” things like that, so she doesn’t want her parents finding out, it’ll just make it worse. For the same reason, she doesn’t want her youth leaders finding out and telling her parents, and is super anxious about them finding out. I’m very thankful how open she’s been with me.
Me and another friend (Mary) did text her most trusted youth leader about everything after a while after praying about it a few weeks ago. Since then, she has only gotten worse and is only eating at lunch and other bad things are going on in her mind (we haven’t told Abby the youth leader about this yet). It feels wrong to go behind her back like this, but I don’t care anymore if it makes her dislike me and helps her.
I guess I’m asking for wisdom or encouragement. It’s hard to see this happen to one of people with the most beautiful faith that I look up to.