Is Denial classed as lying?

Sarah David was fifteen years old and weighed six stone, not that her parents knew that of course, I mean why would they? They were too busy at NCIS to notice what their own child was doing to herself, and if they didn't care? Then why should she?

She only ate when she had to, which simply meant only when her parents were there and only when they seemed to expect her to be eating, although now she was finding ways to escape those meals too. Today she had a late lunch....now if late lunch meant a late lunch two days ago then yes she was telling the truth but she was in pure denial, she had no idea what she was doing to herself. She just wasn't hungry at all, she didn't need to eat, so she didn't.

She saw her family 'scoff' food down their throats like animals and it made her feel ill, she refused to turn out like that. In truth they were simply eating like ordinary people but to her it was like they were purposely trying to get so fat that they would explode.

Sarah cringed at the thought, thinking how messy that would be and excused herself from the table and moved to her bedroom, picking up a package from beneath her bed she fingered the edges slightly before opening it and looking at it. A skin toned corset with lace bindings and silky feel when you touched it.

She glanced at the door, knowing her parents would be too busy to come to her room she slipped off her top, in the mirror she saw an overweight girl staring back at her, but to anyone else they would see her ribs protruding from her small frame and her hip bones sticking out prominently and very obviously, not that anyone had noticed of course, she hid it very well.

She slid the corset on and tied it up as tight as it would go, she coughed from the force of it crushing her lungs and wiggled it slightly to fit on better, sliding her top over her head and smoothing it to her skin she smiled softly to herself, "That's better" she mumbled to her reflection, I will fix you she thought to herself your too fat, yuck who would want you! Her mind taunted her non-stop, it would not leave her alone.

She went from self-denial to lying in a matter of moments when she told her mother that she had eaten earlier, when she told Abby that she was fine, and when she told Tony that she had a high-metabolism.