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Eating disorder awareness week
BillieTheBot
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I found this video really upsetting but worth watching. I think its brought a few home truths to me, so i thought id post it on the offchance it would to anyone else too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSqtVDIwnHo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSqtVDIwnHo
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I'm sad to say I on't know the difference between bulimia and anorexia. It's tragic because as with many mental illnesses, it's hard for other people to see, often until it's too late. There is a girl at my university who I've seen several times who runs every day, her face is drawn with black bags under her eyes and she has the figure of a skeleton - but whose to say thats not just her build and she's training to do a marathon or something? Either way, would it be a random strangers place to comment?
Unless people accept they have an eating disorder and want to get help there is sometimes little anyone can do
Anorexia is restricting food and compensating for eating by purging/over-exercising/more restriction. They beleive they are fat and are terrified of gaining weight. Being able to cope with life depends on keeping weight off, and they usually beleive they will be happier when they meet the next goal.
Bulimia- binging of large amounts of food. People do it quickly and feel out of control. Its like an addiction. Then feel so disgusted they purge it, usually through self-induced vomitting,laxatives, excessive exercise etc. They can be any weight.
Binge-Eating
As it says, binging like someone with bulimia would but they dont have any compensatory behaviours.
Theres also Compulsive Over-eating which is where someone will be constantly picking at food all the time, and not be able to stop it (i dont know much about it actually).
That made me so sad to see the people that had died, but it still didnt stop me wishing i was as thin as some of them.
I have purging anorexia, because well obviously, i have anorexia but I binge and purge too, but not to the extent that someone with bulimia would.
Hope you're all right, Lacrymosa and Sikorah
You can have both elements but normaly it tends to sway more to one or the other. You can have EDNOS which is eating disorder not otherwise specified.
There is also orthorexia nervosa.
I think it can be fully hard to diagnose people with eating disorders to just one thing.
Yes, much much more people have the often overlooked EDNOS, which imaginatively stands for "eating disorder not otherwise specified" which can be pretty much anything. A mia that doesnt eat much either. Someone with anorexic behavior but still is of a normal weight or still gets periods etc.
Just as dangerous, just with a less exciting less specific name.
I actually didnt find the video triggering, and i still sometimes struggle with my ED tendencies. I actually found the deaths bit at the end quite scary as I always have just associated people dying with anorexia rather than bulimia being actually dangerous and possibly life threatening too
Do you use them as thinspo?
Personally, although sick I find looking at people with body shapes like that hypnotising.
Some people will be disgusted but I think theyre perfect. Its my fucked up perception of beauty I suppose.
I'm not too kean on the beautiful one but the courage one is a favourite.
The songs on them are lovely the one I've found used most often is Sia-Breath Me. It's so nice although I associate it with the wrong things and use it as a determination and reminder song I guess :rolleyes:
I'm glad you watched it babe - hopefully you can now see what the rest of us see - that you are damn gorgeous as you are you should learn to be happy and seek help.
ugh.
I know
:grump:
You'll never look like that because that picture is fake and so are many others out there claiming to show mega thin people for thinspiration photos.
I know that you already know all of this but most people don't ever get to be that thin because they die first or at least make themselves very very ill and not just in the short term.
:no:
well 'ana' and 'mia' are like pet names for exceptionally serious illnesses and it aggrevates me that people take them so lightly, i'm not saying that you do but that is what the abbreviations imply.