Iam addicted to pro ana/mia sites.
what will i do ?
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Oh well I don’t know. Just find something else to keep you entertained and maybe you’ll forget about it…. Oh I like your baby guinea pig by the way. I have a guinea pig to she is black with an orange ring and she’s so cute her name is Moey. :)
Are you only addicted to the websites or are you also practicing pro ana/mia?
Hmmmm … Pro Anorexia Bulemia sites. I can only imagine that these sites support your personal idea that you want/need to be thinner.
Let’s look at weight - there is too fat and there is too thin. Eating too much makes us too fat, not eating enough causes us to be too thin: TOO fat or TOO thin are UNheathly. Unhealthy means your life is in jepordy.
So … I recommend researching what is considered HEALTHY and making it a goal to become the most healthy you can be. That is where REAL CONTROL and discipline exists.
Go to the sites if you must … but also go to sites that are telling of the hazards of these practices. Hear the other side of the story.
What you do with your life is your choice. It is wise to make EDUCATED choices. So do your research before you make any choice. Gather lots of differing perspectives and evidence before you choose to place abundance of energy and time into ANYTHING even if it is a website that interests you.
i have visited some of these sites myself.
there are a lot out there.
and….it amazed and sickened and disgusted me, that there are so many girls-and guys- out there, thinking that these disorders are a way of life.
let me tell you, what life is REALLY like with anorexia.
none of the BS, non of the hype or glorification. if you choose this dosorder, this is how your life will be.
i have struggled with eating disorders every day of my life, for 11 years.
currently i am an inpatient at an eating disorders facility, being treated for anorexia nervosa.
i came in here weighing 70lbs.
perfection is what you are after?
well you wont find it weighing what i do.
what you will find, is hell on earth.
i cannot walk across a room with out nearly fainting.
i am so thin, my body no longer has the ability to support itself. it is slowly eating itself. hence, my heart is giving out. i had a heart attack 2 months ago. i am 22 years old.
see, what they dont tell you on those sites, is that eating disorders will take over your life. rule your soul.
strip away everything that was good in your life, and leave you this food and weight obsessed shell.
you will lose your friends, your family and everything else you love to an obsession like this.
i suggest you stay away from those sites, because they do not present any sort of reality of eating disorders AT ALL.
Way to tell it like it is Courty! Coming from someone who know’s what she’s talking about I hope you heed her advice Top Cat. You DONT want to be struggling with what she is struggling with.
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I think you need to open up to your family, tell them how you feel and what you think before the choice is taken from you, when you have an eating disorder you will not be “you” anymore you will be something you will learn to hate, talk to someone let them help you and give yourself the chance to be helped you deserve that much.
I agree with courty, in no way is haveing an eating disorder glamarous! its far from that, it horrid, your life is not your own, you think you have things bad now well think again if you follow that route you will be lost. I had an eating disorder when i was younger and let me tell you it rules your life and it take over your brain, you end up in a bubble of self obssesive compulsion, its not worth it and the sad truth is you only figure out how bad and evil it is untill you have no way out.
No sorry
Honey, I know what its like,
I’m addicted to these sites too,
I go on them more than I hang out with my friends.
But its hard to quit, if you really have to; unplug your computor and just don’t go on it anymore if those sites are really that tempting.
I have anorexia and bulimia, its horrible,
I weighed 83lbs at one point, just like courtney, I was too weak to do anything.
I couldn’t go to school and see my friends, it was hard.
I personally have a site, but it discourages eating disorders.
I’m just giving my side of the story, and its a place to talk to my friends.
Please hun, stop.
I’m so messed up from living like this, but I can’t stop. It is so dangerous for your health, and I’m currently trying to get into recovery, but I’m too scared to talk to anyone.
Be strong, tell someone!
If they don’t support you, and think you are just wanting attention, don’t give up. Tell someone else!
Hope this helps!
Love,
Naomi
I designed a site for people to recover from pro-ana and membership is free.
heyy darling
this seems so ridiculous, but i am in your boat too.
and i’m sinking it :(
to stop, i go onto mysapce and facebook (so addictive), or, otherwise, i give into the craving and go on
the really sad thing is is that i’m not ana/mia… yet
good luck, you’re beautiful, and ciao!!
xoxo
I am trying to find as many pro ana and pro mia sites as I can to prove to the government how dangerous they actually are. I have in total found over 80 sites in all different languages… If anyone can tell me of a site they know, I would be most grateful. LETS STOP THESE DISGUSTING AND LIFE THREATENING SITES TODAY! thanks!
There is another choice out there-
It is at hxxp://www.webiteback.com
I have been a member for almost a year!
The community is made up of people that have fallen into the same traps as you and me.
You CAN get out from under the pro-ana and pro-mia sites.
There is no need to suffer anymore.
I say this with Love,
Alex
P.S. Thank you SO very much to the poster that recognized that there are guys with ED’s out here -
Stay strong and keep BITING BACK!
I have had bulimia since I was 12, so I understand how addicting these sites are. . . .currently I am trying to recover, but it has proved to be difficult (of course)
Here is my tip for you. . . since you dont actually have an ED, you just view these sites, just think of how lucky you are that you are seeking help at an early stage. I like you used to just look at them, but then I became addicted. . . soon i was thinking about it all the time. . . I had those pictures of those beautiful girls in my head all the time. . . in the beginning I was disgusted at the bones that I always saw. . .but I began to accept them, then I began to worship them . . .I began to listen to Ana who had been born in my mind, but I never had the self control, so Mia took over, and now I’m stuck. DO you know how I found this? I was searching ofr another Pro Mia site, when I saw this on yahoo.
You still have hope!! talk to your parents! Talk to a counslor! Do something!!!! Don’t be like me. . . .you will regret it. I promise you, whether you liked your life before, or whether you hated it. . . .it will get worse. I fell into the trap. After I eat I throw it up. I fell into the cycle. . .Do you really want to be like me? I fdont even want to be like me.
Be strong. Fight hard. DOnt let it get to you. Be happy with who you are. Stay away from the sites. Its hard I know, but use those tips that you see to keep from eating, replace eating with “visting ED sites” Clean instead of doing it, watch tv, play sports, Dance! Distract yourself. Snap a rubberband if you feel the urge. Cook. .. . .EAT!
IM Ana and Mia! and Im addicted to that webs pro eDS, and its really nice actually, its like a small community where you know everybody, we support each other, they understand so much! its amazing! i love it! we always talk we take care about the others is wonderful, but this EDs world suck! really now… i feel dizzy tired, upset with myself, im tired! and cant control it! this kind of site are for girls which already have an eating disorder! not for wannabes! thats not the point of this sites! they are not to change the life of a normal girl! is for girls who need a support, which feel that they are alone on their fight!
and we wonder why this world is so retarded? *see above*
you can get ways and means to kill yourself, thats what you can get. why do people tell you to eat healthy? because its what keeps you ALIVE.
if what youre looking for is justification for your illness, why do you need to go to a site for that? surely, if its “ok”, youd feel that anyways, without needing these sites. they exist for one reason, and one reason only. to further your disease and bring you one step closer to death or serious illness.
these sites glamorise anorexia and bulimia. if you want to know the real, disgusting, painful truth, give me a shout and ill give you all the gory ******* details of this godamn illness that nearly took my life.
I’m kind of addicted too, and I don’t have an eating disorder…
Well, okay, I binge and feel horrible about it
but I’ve never starved or induced vomiting.
huh…
in any case, I know the struggle, yet can offer no help.
DO NOT start to go to these sites.
I started out wanting to lose “a little” weight, I NEVER had an eating disorder.
UNTIL I spent one summer doing those lovely ana things, just like the rest of the women there.
I am POSITIVE that starving myself caused an eating disorder…don’t believe it can happen? GOOGLE “Minnesota Starvation Study”.
IF ONLY I knew what HELL on earth I waa setting myself up for…the obsessions, the madness, the hate…
I am addicted to a site.
I am accepting the fact that I DO have an eating disorder now.
IF I ONLY KNEW!
Google it and see for yourself.
PLEASE don’t be a lunatic like I have turned myself into.
PLEASE, please don’t.
IF this message helps one damaged soul out there, I will be happy then, even if just for one moment.
The more people go to these sites, the more they will starve themselves, and with enough dead teenage girls, america will finally turn against it’s ridiculous standard of “beauty.”
Yeah right.
If you would like to know why in the modern Western World, men, or at least conformist type men, prefer skinny blondes, read the chapter entitles “the primaeval mitosis” from the book “Soul on Ice” by Eldridge Cleaver.
This chapter describes how when humanity began to divide into classes, that the men who did not need to work began to grow weak, and desired women to be even weaker. That’s why you get the image of women who are starved, incapable of thinking, have nails to long to do anything with their hands, and can’t open a car door for themselves as “attractive,” whereas in communities where almost all of the males are not rich aristocratic types, such as the black community in america, thick women are considered attractive.
There’s actually a psychological/historical reason behind why black guys like fat chicks, and why most white guys only want really stupid girls who starve themselves.
Hope this answers your question.
i just want help and no one will listen
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