@prollydelphia
I'm writing a short story (about ~10,000 words planned) and one of my characters, a high school boy implied to have depression, skips on meals and starves himself after his best friend and crush gets expelled and punished for something he didn't do as a part of a B-plot. At the end, one of his other close friends supports him and eventually convinces him to start eating again. He doesn't have any diagnosed eating disorders, but he starves himself as a way to cope with his best friend's leave, not unlike people who cut as a means of self-harm. What should I keep in mind and/or avoid when writing about his disordered eating, so it's still respectful to people with eating disorders, but doesn't come across as too much in comparison to the main plot?
