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Originally Posted by Lani
Oh and for the attention thing, from my experience and from talking to other suffers, there is no desire for attention. If anything anorexia and being thin is meant to mean we disappear. Like I always said - The Desire to be a size Zero is a Desire to no longer exist.
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That's so sad. It just seems that once they start to lose weight they start getting attention..... people will say, "Oh, you look great!" It fuels the fire, they want to lose more and more weight. Then when people start saying, "Oh, you are waaay too thin now" they still want to lose more weight.
I'm sure this isn't the case for all anorexics/bulimics, but for the ones I've known it sure seems that way. It's all about low self-esteem and the longing for some kind of perfection that will never exist. The attention it brings equals love and acceptance maybe.
Hell, I don't know and won't even try to pretend to understand it. Hopefully I haven't been offensive or insensitive in any way, I sure wasn't trying to be. I feel really badly for anyone who has to deal with this.
Especially scary that my own 9 year old girl is already saying she is "fat" when clearly she is not.