What I can do if I suspect my mom has an eating disorder?
Well that would be such an incredibly powerless place to be at, because chances are that if you're suspecting your mom has an eating disorder, that you're picking up on lots of things, the same thing that I said that if you suspect your child has an eating disorder. If you're suspecting your mom has an eating disorder, then what you want to do is you kind of want to take a look at what has been going on in her life for the last few years, and it's very important to be able to sit down and level with her and say, "Mom, these are the behaviours I've seen that make me worry that you may be doing some behaviours that are restrictive behaviours, that you're really not nourishing your body with enough food, and I'm sensing that you may be depriving your body of food." And I would say, just sit down and talk with her in a loving, kind, compassionate, and respectful manner. And, you can say, "And Mom, I may be completely off base, because I'm in this world right now where I'm just seeing all these people with anorexia, and I kind of wondered, because when you were young, you kind of never sat down with us at any meal times, you always seemed to be so busy preparing food for us. Now I'm thinking back and I'm realizing you never really sat down. Even now you don't sit down with us and eat. You just prepare a little something for yourself on a little plate and you just kind of wolf it down and then you're done." So give behaviours, and talk about history, and talk about what you might be seeing.
