Well, shit. This is a long one, buckle up.

My friend, who we'll call "**A**", has been acting really out of character lately. 

**A** and I go way back. All the way back to Elementary school. We met in 3rd grade and have been inseparable ever since. But recently, things have been different. I'll start of by saying this, **A** struggles with mental illness. They work like a pattern. One day they're talking about how fat they are, the next day they're talking about how fat you are. 

**A** has put me through a lot of mental strain as well. In middle school, **A** hit a rough patch in their life. One late night I receive a lengthy message from her number. The message was their final goodbye to me before they planned to kill themself. As anybody would, I panicked. I frantically texted back, trying to convince them not to do it. Worst night of my life, I truly thought that I'd never see them again. I was frozen in my bed, whimpering and choking on my tears all night until I passed out from exhaustion. Morning arrives and I call their sibling completely hysterical. I pleaded with them to get out of bed and check on **A**. Turns out, **A** was unharmed and sleeping like a baby. I was relieved and livid at the same time. Apparently they had fallen asleep after she sent the text to me. 

Even through shit like that, I stuck around. I supported them through thick and thin. Like a good friend should. Sadly, I can't do it anymore. Everyday they chip away at my self-esteem with their judgemental commentary on everything I do. I'm not the only one who feels this way either, they're affecting our whole friend group. Enough is enough, somebody had to put them in their place. *So I did.*

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So **A** is on a "diet", If you can even call it that. If anything, they're average size with most of their excess weight being carried in their stomach. But they're obsessed with the idea of being thin. So much so, they go out their way to buy clothing they'll only wear when they're skinny. Which I guess could motivate them, but personally I think it's stupid to buy clothing you could possibly fit in much later down the road. They have a pile of crop tops and skinny jeans just sitting around collecting dust. 

Because of the "diet" **A's** on, they like to act holier than thou. On a daily basis, they have a bagel (Or two if they skipped breakfast) in the morning, vegetables and soda for snack, two small lunch meat &amp; mayo sandwiches on white bread, pizza and a salad drenched in caesar dressing. I wish I was exaggerating but I'm not. This just infuriated me because If I even dare ordered two pieces of pizza or they'd say, "Pizza again? You're going to get fatter if that's all you eat" or "That's all going to your thunder thighs" and follow it with a laugh. But I didn't think it was that funny. 

It was really damaging to hear this from somebody I felt safe expressing myself with. After that, I stopped eating in front of them. I was scared of what she was going to say next. I know what they were saying was coming from a place of their own insecurities but it still fucked me up. It became a little more personal when they attacked my newly found friend calling them such things like "fat tranny whore" and other offensive shit. 

Enraged, I completely went off on them. The whole ordeal was quite childish. I made a stupid remark about, "how is it possible that you're uglier on the inside than you're on the outside" and how they eat like dump truck and have the same physique of a garbage can. Just really pathetic insults I'd been bottling up inside of me up until that point. The damage had been done and **A** just left about ready to cry, and I didn't chase after them and we haven't talked since. 

But AITA? 

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