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Originally Posted by yanna
I'm so disturbed with the existence of pro-ana communities! I saw one in livejournal, you had girls posting "OMG, I just ate a slice of orange!" They also have "wanarexics", girls who are desperate to lose weight and join a pro ana community hoping to come down with anorexia themselves. The true anas hate those.
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This absolutely makes me sick.
As someone who has suffered from EDs and struggled with weight her whole life I find it absolutely disgusting that anyone would want to deliberately make themselves anorexic or bulimic...I never asked to become anorexic
or bulimic nor did I want it or flaunt it when I was suffering.
It was a very dark and painful time where I pretty much isolated myself and just allowed myself and my life to just waste away...
This is why I get so upset at those girls (and guys) out there who see eating disorders as nothing more than a 'lifestyle choice' or a 'quick diet fix' and not a serious psychological illness that kills!
Not only that but for those of us who are/have truly suffered with this disease are all looked at pretty much the same now by the general public thanks to the so-called 'wanarexics'...and that would be that they think we brought this on ourselves or that we aren't
that seriously ill or that we are just doing it for attention, etc...
Grrr...our stupid society glamorizing thinness and equating it to beauty...it almost makes it seem as if having an eating disorder is cool or something...because it's no longer surprising when another celebrity comes out as having an ED or even in real life...it's no longer too surprising (at least not to me) when I hear of someone else who has/is suffering...
Also, sometimes it seems that there are
more people who have EDs (or some type of unhealthy diet hang up) than people who don't...and that's scary...