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Holly60
I do not seem to fit the stereotype here. I am wondering if I am an anomaly or a growing trend. I am not a teenager, and did not have an eating disorder when I was. Here I am at the age of 31, married, with two children depending on me, and searching Google for tips on how I can become anorexic.
Congratulations to the anti-pro anorexia people. I have not yet been successful in finding any unhealthy advice to enable me to look like the magazines my husband drools over. I have been directed and re-directed to the healthy scientific sites, and have read all the problems with anorexia. I do not see the side effects and death as a risk I am willing to take. I see them as a price I willing to pay.
Yes, I would not be able to take good care of my children. It cannot be much worse than my refusal to get off the couch to mother them because I am so depressed. Yes, it would be painful. Society celebrates the effects of this type of self-mutilation more than the scars from cutting, which is a disorder I am already fighting. In this, I identify with GiVi’s description of preferring anorexia to another disorder. Death would come after my children would be at an age they would be on their own. Yes, being a grandparent looks fun, but the degradation society offers older women does not. Heck, even the AARP magazines do not show pleasantly plump women. Even they look unrealistically skinny! In short, I am Googling anorexia nervosa in hopes of becoming exactly what society values while I am at an age society finds valuable. Then, as all other American possessions, I would become disposable afterward.
Psychoanalysis of my depression, and preventing me from finding the information I am seeking is a moot point anyway. If I do not have the discipline to stick to a diet, I will not have the discipline to become anorexic. I am like an AIDS patient looking to trade in my disease for cancer. The grass is greener on the other side. All the same, I would like to try looking the way society finds beautiful and valuable before I kill myself.
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anom59
there’s other criteria
I’m not licensed to give that diagnosis
Google “DSM-IV anorexia”
http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/anorexia.htmThere’s numerous branches now: Anorexia Athletica, Anorexia Nervosa, Restricting Annoretic, Purging annoretic, Binge type
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kathy58
you said that to be classified as anorexic your BMI has to be 17.7 or less, mine is 17.0 and I’ve missed my period so many times.. I’m really skinny and I was wondering if this means that I am anorexic or not..
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anom57
You know what, I DO KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE.
I’m 5′3 at 100 pounds, I wear a girls size 14 pants (oh yes, and I wear sweats and sweat shirts 24/7), I have bruises on my hip bones and spine. Did it ever occur to you that REAL annoretics don’t need tips to stay on track. I weigh myself up to 23 times a day, and I turn the lights off when I TAKE A SHOWER so I don’t have to face the mirrors. I “recovered” for 2 years and have since relapsed last May.It’s disgusting what you are doing. If you already live a daily hell with an eating disorder, then do it by yourself. DON’T BRING OTHERS DOWN WITH YOU.
Anorexia is not fun, or pretty, and it’s NOT a diet that you can keep going back to. IT’S A DISORDER
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Gina55
I was anorexic at one time and my mom thought it was getting out of hand so we got it fixed. I kow what its like to watch everyone around you eat, but then you are sitting there feeling like you are about ready to puke up your shomach or feel like its going to fall out. I’m not overweight but I am fat and I want to lose 15 lbs. Its working. I am 5′1″ and I weigh 102. Or I did its been 2 days since I last weighed myself. YOU discust me because you dont know what its like to always wear baggy sweatshirts because you can’t stand thinking about what people think of you, you dont know what its like to not even want to look at yourself, you don’t know what its like to go to the scale constantly, hoping you lost a pound or two now do you? You are no one to talk there miss thang!
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anom.54
To that “Gina” chick:
Anorexia is not some fad diet that you can just turn to everytime you want to lose a few vanity pounds. Try talking to someone who actually has the disorder and who has delt with it. You don’t know what it’s like to have clumps of your hair falling out when you are in the shower, you don’t know what it’s like to want to eat but you can’t because you are utterly AFRAID OF FOOD. Do you know what the health problems are? No, you don’t. I have a heart murmur and I am unable to even excercise because of the stress my heart has been under. You are pathetic, and you make me sick. I wouldn’t be surprised if you are overweight, and think that just because you don’t eat for a few weeks that you are anorexic. FYI: THE DSM-IV States that in order to be clinically classified as an anorexic, you have to have a BMI of 17.7 or less, missed 3 consecutive periods, and have to fit all the other diagnostic criteria. Sorry baby doll, you lose…take it from someone who has been there….and still is
Anorexia is NOT some fat chick’s dream come true…
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yeah i have a pro ana site, its been like a week maybe more now since i updated it, but i’ve updated it like every other day for about a month now, so there is alot of stuff there to look at untill i get some more tips up. Enjoy, and if you are against my site for anyreason, please just dont visit it.
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fat52
i have a fantasy about takin a knife and slicing away all the fat. anyone else do that
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sarahp51
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