Pro-anorexia websites

I can not believe what I am seeing on the internet!! My friend who was anorexic (but now thankfully is recovered and now extremely healthy) was a member of one of these sites and she sent me the link to show me how scary anorexia really is. Everyone in those websites are so depressing. If they drink orange juice, they go online and complain and say how they are so fat at 90 pounds. It's so ridicoulous! And those thinspiration videos in Youtube! Omg, I can't believe people would actually look at people w/ just bones and skin on themselves and think "healthy and beautiful". I noticed that no matter how thin anorexics get, they never get any happier.

I hope I don't offend anyone on here. I was just ranting...

No offense taken.  It is pretty sad.

I don't believe in internet censorship, but damn... there's gotta be something we can do about that :\

....Kinda sad to say...

I found this site was through a pro-ana site. So some users here are anorexic I guess..

I'm not anorexic though (or ever have been).

-Lemon Jello

Good rant!

I despise self-sacrifice.  Self-righteous self-sacrifice for the sake of extreme thinness, an empty goal, is even worse.  Its horrifying that with all the wealth and abudance that we enjoy in the free world, compared to say, certain parts of Africa where children dont have the choice of whether or not to starve themselves to death, these people have the gall to to go on the internet and complain that they had the privilege of choosing to consume delicious and clean food today, and took advantage of it (as they well should!).

I just cant wrap my head around it.  Its senseless.

The fact that there's a good amount of web sites catering to pedofiles, particularly the "appreciation society" types makes me not hardly surprised about all the pro-ana websites.  At least THEY are mostly just harming themselves.  There are websites about everything.  And disturbing as Eating Disorders can be, their cute & fuzzy compared to some of the other stuff out there.

its a severe illness, that can be fatal. So just remember its a severe illness, perhaps one could call it a mental illness, so those folks need help.

It is very sad, but humans are one screwed up species, that is for sure

Half the posts I see in the weight loss forum are the sort of crap I'd expect from a proanorexic site, but I'm a big asshole for saying a 600 calorie a day diet is ridiculous.

well, even now, I see sponsored links and adds about anorexics and bulimics on this site..

When I first stumbled onto an ana site, there were talking about 02468 diet.. I was wondering what that was until I found out that's the calories they would consume per day. That's pretty much starving =\ And if anything, we should be glad that they binge time to time because otherwise they'd just fall dead.

-Lemon Jello 

I'd wager a guess that quite a few people with eating disorders use this site as well.  Maybe alot of them use it just to log their calories?  I don't know.

i know and i guess i always thought those who were anorexic didn't KNOW they were--that they would say they were not but instead its become like a cute club or something...

i dont get it either, i mean i think the only thing that can never be too thin (well almost) are thighs--but the rest of you starts looking bad when you get too skinny---hmm this almost makes me think--i never was "too" skinny but when i reached my previous thinnest, i thought i still had a lot of work to do (and i did) but my upper body became sort of boney--i didnt like how you could see my collar bone all the time..it didnt look soft...so if i had actually succeeded in thinning out those thighs, i might have looked ugly in the face...

ahh well good luck to those who suffer from the disease...

I'd say that's a fair assessment peaches.  Not sure why, the pro ana sites are far from hard to find.  They have balls coming here.  Some seem to be trying to figure out HOW to become anorexic coming here asking questions they think are so clever looking for info & I've kinda had it.  I'm well aware not everyone has as much weight to lose as me, just like there are others with more to lose, but I have no time for people who have a great shot at being healthy without having to go through what a lot of us are.... and have no respect for that or themselves.

I just read some pro-ana blogs. They're really sad.
The girls are so obsessed. It kinda scares me, how they got that way.

I kinda wanna slap them for hurting themselves like that, then hug them because how sad they seem.

What's even more scary, a lot don't want help. I wish I could change their mindset, show them what they are doing to themselves.

Pro-ana sites suck, they should (those who encourage any eating disorder) be ashamed. :(

nods

It is very sad...because this "Pro-Ana" movement by these young kids has very much hurt those who truly suffer from anorexia.

what I mean is that there are alot of young girls (and guys) who have bought into the whole media craze.  These are the kids who want to be thin so badly that they will purposely try to starve themselves to get it.  Unfortunately, these teens are still choosing to do this.  They go onto websites to get "tips" and they like to throw the word "Ana" around alot.   Because of this new "Ana" movement, the ones who truly have mental disorders and suffer from very serious body dysmorphia are lumped into the same category as these other silly teens.

This may sound a bit crazy, but I'm almost sorta glad that I'm at pretty low risk for that sort of thing.  I have a lot of weight too lose & starving myself makes me lose NOTHING, so I'd have a hell of a time keeping up that sort of thing even if I wanted to.  Also, I'm just not that disciplined.  I like certain foods way too much.  As long as I love Ice Cream & Pizza & am still petrified of throwing up, I think I have most eating disorders defeated.  I may be chunkier than I'd like, & it might be difficult to lose weight, but I honestly would rather be this way if I had to choose just one.  I'm ok with me.  I just know I can do better if I work on it.

One of the most disturbing parts of that little "club" duzzie, is all the creative little things they teach each other about how to avoid getting caught by parents & doctors or anyone else who wants to  "make them fat."  Also known as people who are trying to keep them alive.  I know a lot of people with this can't see themselves for what they are, but when they're posting pictures of other severe anorexics on their sites, titling them as if they are a form of art, I wish they could at least see what's wrong with it in the other people.

It's not so new.  I think we can safely say it pre-dated the internet.  Even in hospitals, they used to share "tips"  But like many things good & bad... the internet just increased accessiblity.

i completely agree with pretty much everything that has been said on here. I come at it from a different angle though, so let me explain.  united2gether, our friendly moderator, may remember me from when I first found this site. I was 18, living alone in a foreign country, and I was a wreck. I had an eating disorder, but was never diagnosed. What I found on the site facilitated my eating habits even more, because I was misusing the tools. However, once I moved back home, I stepped away from the site, and got control over my situation again. Now I am back on the site basically for toning, and maintaining, and monitoring my weight and calorie intake. Yet some of the forums I have stumbled across here have been very bad because they make me want to revert back to bad habits. So, from my perspective, i see that yes, this site is misused by a lot of teenage girls who want to facilitate their eating disorder, but for many, it is a way to stay out of an ED.

Ok...that's all, I think. *blushes with shame for being so dumb in the past as to actually have an ED*

You're not dumb for having had an eating disorder isusiubeste! It's a disease, it affects the minds of it's victims (most of which don't realize/care that it is an ED). You recognized it and improved your life! That's the important thing. I'm glad you did, it means that trying to help people with eating disorders can bear fruit, that we don't have to watch them die, not being to help them.

Thank you for sharing your story with us :)

isusiubeste- Also, how do some of the threads/posts do that (so that we can try to avoid such things)?

Robin sue- that is scary. Why are they the only ones oblivious to the destruction they cause themselves?

~ waves hello to isusiubeste ~

yes, i remember you :)  welcome back!

i do remember that we tried to encourage you towards healthy weight management.  i'm glad to hear you are doing better!

isn't it that way for a lot of us?  we don't know better or don't want to hear it or we need to hear it sometimes over and over before we decide to change or even dare to believe it could be true...

i had a lot of *mis-information* and long-time bad habits to change.... took a lot of talking & thinkin & hashing ideas over b4 I accepted some things...  truly glad we can do that here!