-learn about eating disorders so you will know the signs when you see them
- Recognize that ED are potentially fatal diseases and treat them accordingly
- Listen to your friend with respect, understanding and sensitive
- Be consistent and insist that your friend needs help.
- Be available when your friends need someone to talk to
- Share your own struggles
- Take any action alone. Get help
- Try to solve the problem for them; they need a qualified professional
- Blame them for doing something wrong, or tell them that they are acting silly
- Gossip about them
- Be afraid to upset them; and talk with them
- Reject or ignore them; they need you
- Be deceived by their excuses