So you want an eating disorder? Want to be thin?

Dear Wannarexics...
quit playing make-believe with a serious mental illness

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Posted by: nonemorepessimistic Original: 5/25/2007 3:39 AM Views: 328 Comments: 9 eProps: 16 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

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Friday, May 25, 2007

So you want an eating disorder? Want to be thin?

If you are one of those girls who wants an eating disorder, I urge you to take a look at this site:

http://www.somethingfishy.org/memorial/memorial.php

The above links to a list of girls who have passed away due to complications from an eating disorder.

Take a moment to scroll down the page. See how long the list is? See how young many of those girls are?

Imagine how their mothers must have felt, watching their child die.

Imagine the pain their friends and family went through after their death.

Imagine how the sufferers felt when they realized that their ED was killing them.

Imagine your name on that list.

If you to starve yourself, you will die. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but somewhere down the road, your ED will cut your life short. Studies have shown that even recovered anorexics and bulimics have a shorter life-expectancy.

These girls died a tragic death from a horrible mental illness. They suffered years and years of mental anguish, only to have their disorder kill them.

Please learn something from their stories. You don't want an eating disorder.

Posted 5/25/2007 3:39 AM - 328 Views - 16 eProps - 9 comments

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The reason I left that comment was because of the short and sweet comment you left my friend. Also, you may not have directly called her, or someone else a 'wannarexic' but you picked out my mate and accused her of glamourizing her eating disorder. It's her choice if that's what she wants to do (not that I agree with that sort of thing!), and as it turned out, it was nothing like that.

I didn't judge you, I read your posts and journal and I took it what you had to say. I think you are pretty brave and I admire you for trying to help people but, as you can tell, that comment made me furious.

I don't want this to be a big internet drama, so can we just leave this here?

Anyroad, thanks for commenting back and good luck with recovery.

Posted 5/25/2007 5:38 AM by the_sixth_queen - reply

Visit Merci_Pour_Le_Venine's Xanga Site!

I took some stuff from ur crash dieting thing, hope u dont mind much <3

Posted 5/25/2007 11:47 AM by Merci_Pour_Le_Venine - reply

first off i want to apologize, i over reacted and that entry was a little over the top. i respect what you're doing, i doubt it will help any girl who really is ill and is not interested in only losing a few pounds but i respect it just as well.
one question though- do you really think those girls who glamorize anorexia are really sick? do you really think they are the ones who will end up in therapy? i don't know, i think these girls will just gain back what they've shed and return to having normal lives.
hope we're ok.

Posted 5/25/2007 12:08 PM by fashionably_ana - reply

Posted by "Ana_Strength"
"I'd be 1 or 2 because I don't want to be an ugly skinny."
(1 = no showing bones, just normal thin, 2 = model thin)

Obviously doesn't understand with anorexia, you don't get to chose. XD Thought you'd find this one funny Sof, you should get a load of her journal. Lmfao

Posted 5/27/2007 1:59 AM by TheStrawberryNinja

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god should bless you

thank you

i'm mentaly hugging you right now.

what you are doing is great, i think i'm going to do one

Posted 5/27/2007 10:40 PM by lorvine - reply

Thank you for posting that. Those girls who glamorize this illness are sick individuals.

Posted 5/28/2007 4:27 PM by randomdisaster019 - reply

wtf, i haven't been on your website, i swear... i don't know why my ip address sjowed(msybe they made a fake one...) but it ain't me.. i promise, i've left all this behind me.. i don't know what to do to prove it to you..

Posted 5/29/2007 4:22 AM by dietsoda_v - reply

Posted 6/7/2007 3:20 PM by TheStrawberryNinja

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that's funny coming from someone who's anorexic...
or was...or whatever you are.
i think you're the last person who should be telling people "if you starve yourself you will die"

Posted 1/27/2009 4:16 PM by asdfghkjlena - reply

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Why?
I'm getting really fucking sick of ignorant little twats glamorizing eating disorders. The beautiful women they use as thinspiration, the "thin commandments", all of the bullshit they spread about anorexia -- none of this is the reality. Anorexia is a life-threatening mental illness, it's not a trend you can pick up and use to your liking.

Wannarexics

Wannarexics are teenaged girls who believe that anorexia is a fun, trendy, glamorous way to lose weight. They crash-diet, claiming that they're anorexic. Often, they will post images of extremely slim celebrities (Nicole Richie, Kate Moss, Mary-Kate Olsen) as "thinspiration". They attempt to make anorexia out to be a quick way to lose weight. Some even go far enough to claim that anorexia is a lifestyle, and not a mental illness.

Who am I?

I am a 23-year-old sufferer of anorexia, currently torn between recovery and reverting back to my old habits (I had to gain weight recently for surgery). Anorexia has destroyed my life. I wish I could turn back time and prevent myself from developing this horrible illness. There is NOTHING I want more than to be able to live a normal life again... but I'll never have that. Anorexia follows you for the rest of your life. The nagging voice in your head that tells you that you're too fat, not good enough and a failure will always be with you.
My main Xanga is ventricularX_Xfibrillation.

And for the record...

This journal is not here to mock genuine sufferers of anorexia. I know how hard it is to battle this illness, and that nothing in my Xanga can possibly cure someone of anorexia.
The purpose here is to show wannarexics the reality of eating disorders. I want them to see what is in store for them if they succeed in "catching" anorexia. I also want them to see exactly what genuine sufferers go through each an every day, and hopefully show them that what they're doing is a cruel joke on all the real anorexics out there.

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