This thread feels like…a funeral, but she’s not dead. Yet.
Something I’m curious about: does Ash think of or use any kind of harm reduction methods? I don’t know what those would be for EDs, but I know for something like drug use, you can at least use clean tools and not use alone, or for self-harm, give yourself proper first aid and space it out.
Harm reduction can be useful, but perhaps she is too far “gone” or not able to think clearly enough. Or too desperate. And even if she clawed her way back, the damage would be done.
Of course, people have different views on harm reduction vs abstinence ideas. But in my trawling of the Internet, I’ve seen that even forums for people going through the same thing while not always preaching recovery do seem to help.
Never browsed MPA, but there (was? Is? Maybe still is?) a similar site and forum for people who do any kind of self-harm, usually cutting.
I mean, not ideal. Risky click of that day. But I found it interesting there was, alongside being able to chat with others, information on first aid, safety, and possible alternative actions one might take. It did seem to help, and if someone talked about having done it, others might ask “did you do xyz, to be safer?”
Ash is just…doesn’t even have that sort of weird, controversial support now. Even her own “people” in that sense think “whoa. Too far.”
I feel someone ought to make her a blanket. That’s a sort of odd funeral superstition for me, to give someone something warm and a bit of precious metal when they die.