Hello members,
My fiancée has been dealing with bulimia and anorexia for a long time now. For the past two years she has not been trying to help herself, just going with the flow and keeping on doing it.
Her mother, step-father and myself grew the feeling she still had her issues over the summer. We confronted her and she opened up; she accepted to seek therapy for a few weeks. She did not get any results.
We are currently in France - where I am from - for a few months, and since we got here she has not been doing good at all. She'll start the week full of good intentions eating well, too much, purge or starve herself the next day.
I have been trying to advise her in how she could try to balance her diet by eating several smaller meals each day. I am not even sure she's tried it fully, as she stayed very vague.
It is frustrating because I want to help her and I am running out of options. Her ED is "control-induced," as she feels it's the only thing she controls. I tried to convince her that balancing her diet and making the right food choices allows her a greater control. She's a lot about the "i can have it, right now" attitude.
She is getting frustrated as well, I can tell that she is not willing to try again some stuff she gave a chance already because she didn't see any results. The problem, though, is that she doesn't know what to try and neither do I.
Do some of you have experience with people who suffered from EDs in the same way? What can I suggest to help her out? Do you have any suggestions on how I can help her better? She is extremely susceptible and it is getting frustrating on my part as well, as it almost feels like she takes everything I say to turn it around against me.
Thanks for reading.