If only it was possible to stop those kids from killing themselves! You do know, don't you, of cases when these anorectic girls have starved themselves to death? Th scariest thing about anorexia is it ruins your whole body so that even a simple cold can kill you easily.

If you knew anything, you'd know that none of us do it to be thin.
We just feel like our lives are out of control.
We search frantically online for ways to hide it from our family members because we feel like freaks and we feel like you judge us too harshly.
We're afraid you'll be angry or disappointed.
You- our parents- judge us, and we can't stand it.

Eating disorders find us because we feel out of control, and we keep the disorder safe and sheltered within us because we're afraid you might blame us. Like this was the life we had imagined for ourselves.

Rather than admitting we have a problem, most of us pretend we like it.
Very few of us do.

Everyone has people they look up to, according to what they'd like to achieve.
Male body builders emulate Governor Arnold.
We emulate fashion models, and sometimes skeletons.

Pro Ana sites do not teach you how to have an eating disorder. We hate healthy people who want to be like us. We look down on the little 14-year-olds who ask us "how to be ana," and we pity them because they have no idea what they're getting into.
Pro Ana sites just let us find people who have similar goals and need support.

This very weight loss forum is a lot like our pro-ana forums.

Do not blame the media for us.
It's just plain stupid.

The media is beginning to favor bigger women and we find this disgusting.

I dunno what I'm getting at.
I wish I could help people understand...

I'm writing a book about life in the mid of an Anorexic person...
My name is Reshanna Jolie Sexton.
Look for my book someday.
Maybe then you'll get it.

It'll be very detailed, but it's not meant to be a daily "Ana Guide."
It's so that parents know what to look for.
The early signs, as well as the signs of a girl crying for help, close to death.

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P.S. two tidbits for you:
-Anorexia dates as far back as the days of the black death.

-Those most prone to developing an eating disorder are females in late adolescence and early adulthood (17-24 years old).

Pro ana websites have been around for 10 years at least, that's when I was first looking to start loosing weight, and in my naivety I thought that reading about people who were anorexic/bulimic would help ME to stop eating and => lose weight. Stupid I know... now.

What I wanted to say thought is that there is, more often than not, an underlying cause for developing an eating disorder. You will find that the majority of sufferers have something in their lives that they are not happy about (not necessarily their weight) and having complete control over what goes into their body (food choice) is the only thing that they have control over and it becomes an obsession.

This is why curing it is so difficult because simply forcing them to eat, or using logic "you will die if you don't eat" method doesn't work.

So none of you really want to be thin, yet you all have a goal to be thin? I think you have contradicted yourself. If you're pro ana/mia you need medical treatment, it is really that simple and that complex all at the same time. Of course people with mental conditions often are unware of their need for this medical treatment and there in lies the problem.

I frequent pro-ana/mia sites, but just as a reminder to myself how not to lose weight.

At first I found them morbidly fascinating, but as I read the stories of more and more girls, I realized that for all their talk of "lovelies", "my starving pretties", blah blah blah glib bull****, most of them are terrified, isolated, miserable, and sick. Their loathing of fat people is typically a projection of their own self loathing. They can never be good enough.

Their self esteem is shattered by the smallest things, like "bingeing" on three potato chips, or having their boyfriends glance in someone else's general direction. They are nothing to glamorize or emulate. A lot of them come from broken homes or exist in mentally abusive relationships. They torture themselves, physically and psychologically.

It's pathetic and sad.

I do like the idea of "thinspiration" though, and I do like to look at their photos of thin women as inspiration. But some of the "thinspiration" models they post on those sites are straight-up emaciated, and it's pretty disgusting.

Congrats to those out there who kicked the ED addiction.

I once fell under a mild ED spell until I did the following exercise:

Walk down the street and notice how many thin and skinny people there are. Are they all model beautiful and hot? HEll NO!


There are a lot of not so attractive but thin and skinny people in the world. In my mind being thin is going to make you as attractive as being rich. Sure it might help but being beautiful is soooooo much more than just how much fat is on your body.

I did exactly the same. For me it would just be going from one death sentence to another.

Being thin doesn't mean being beautiful. Media influences teens nowadays that they have to be thin in order to be attractive which is not good. These teens just need acceptance and appreciation from the community especially from the opposite sex. I guess, putting off this standard can help the teen to love their body no matter how thin or fat they are.