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dondi
Intermediate Member
Username: dondi
Post Number: 206
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 69.226.119.211
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 11:53 pm: | 
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do you or anyone you know have this problem with ana? Do you know who ana is? Well, ana is a terrible little •••• called anorexia. She can take your beautifull child and make her sickly. I looked into this a bit and there are quite a few pro ana sites out there. Don't let them take our children just because hollywood says it is ok to be super thin |
dowen
Advanced Member
Username: dowen
Post Number: 625
Registered: 4-2005
Posted From: 67.9.93.81
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 12:20 am: |
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Hey Dondi,
I agree, "ana" is a horribly disease.
I ran across an 'underground' site the other day that was devoted to the 'beauty' of anorexia. Scary stuff indeed. While I hesitate to call this mental disorder a cult, it is a disease, and a horrible one. Someone I love dearly has struggled with this disorder so I feel I have first hand knowledge of it, and it's complications.
I am curious, out of all the 'factnetters' out there, have any of you battled this mental disease and overcome it?
If so, how? |
rachelengland
Senior Member
Username: rachelengland
Post Number: 2176
Registered: 5-2005
Posted From: 216.109.192.236
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 10:08 am: |
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I have battled this disease Dowen. In my early 20's as my mother was struggling with cancer and I was living overseas struggling w/ a new culture, where much emphasis was put on the physical- I stopped eating. I mean really working out 2 or more times a day and maybe eating a cracker every five days or so.
It really is a disease about "control"-you feel like your whole life is just spinning out of "control" and the only thing you have "control" over is your food intake.
I became deathly thin. Getting out of the environment I was in surely helped and learning to love myself and remembering I was more than just a physical being was helpful I did not go to therapy for some though, that might work.
It never goes away- we always have guilt about eating... R
(Message edited by rachelengland on November 28, 2006) |
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