LETTER 2 Q Dear Doctor Love I have a good friend at school and we get on great. She’s been there for me this year when I had stuff going on in my family, but she’s started doing something that is gross and makes me feel sick to my stomach. I don’t know how to tell her to stop, or even if I should just stop being friends with her. She eats a lot of junk and has quite bad skin and lately she constantly squeezes her pimples and then eats it. It’s so disgusting and I can’t take it much longer. Gross friend A Dear Gross Friend This sounds really difficult and conflicting. It is NEVER easy to tell someone when they have a habit or issue that we don’t like, but it’s really important to try rather than just pull away from them. It sounds like you have a very good friend here and they are hard to find. A good place to start might be to ask your friend if everything is going okay with her. You could say you’ve noticed her picking her face a lot which can be a sign of being an
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