Okay, I'm not one to judge...believe me. I am a bisexual who suffers from OCD and Major Depression and I have a variety of other problems. Believe me, I know what it's like to have issues and feel hopeless. But at the same time, how can people be PROanorexia??
It seems more than a little bit obvious to me that the people who are proanorexia are the ana girls or the binge/purge girls.
GIRLS YOU ARE KILLING YOURSELVES AND YOU LOOK UGLY.
I'm sorry to make you all feel worse about yourselves, and I think that you should all find someone to talk to (who doesn't also suffer from your condition). But seriously, I find it extremely hard to believe that you all really think you are ever going to be happy. I was on a website today on livejournal and they had a whole group of people who suffer from eating disorders who encourage each other to go on fasts and how to eat less and hide it. I think it is disgusting and insane.
I am 5'3" and I weigh around 103 lbs. When I got to college, I weighed 105, and I was constantly losing weight because the food at school got me sick ALL the time. I went home over winter break and was back up to 105. When I got back I dropped 10 lbs in the course of a couple of weeks. I was 95 lbs and I looked scary. When the weight started coming off and I was around 100 I thought I looked tone and fit and amazing, but my friends that saw me told me that I was looking wayyyy too thin.
I'm back up to 103 lbs and I don't plan on letting myself go below 100. My problem is that I have never TRIED to lose weight, I just tend to get sick a lot, especially with all the greasy college food that I am forced to eat while I'm here.
Girls, I have one thing to say to you all. I know as you lose a lot of weight you start to think you look better. First off, you don't. You look unhealthy and you just don't realize it. Second...if you maintain that new lower weight, you are going to start feeling badly about yourself again and continuously try and lose weight.
You are killing yourselves and you don't even know it.
Please get help.
Wishing all the girls suffering some luck--remember that the most beautiful girls are the ones who are healthy....
I'm an avid LiveJournal user as well, and I know exactly what group you're talking about. The sad part is, despite evidence and petitioning, the staff there won't close the group because it's somehow not against the line in their ToS that forbids encouraging or promoting harm to oneself or others.
I think most people don't want to believe that eating disorders are medical/mental disorders just like anything else and need to be treated as such.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge