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I hate reading stuff like this:
i am starting out anorexia. i know its a disease or whatev but i have been doing it for a week or so and i really like it . i love the feeling of not eating any thing and my body just being empy. i am about 128 pounds and 5'8 ish but im not sure hwat i want t wiegh bmaybe 115 or 120 . i dont know u can already see most of my ribs but i have like an athelic body. i really dont want muscualr legs and i dont know how to make them thinner like i m not that big but i want to be skinny. i wear tight patns and such and it looks good except for from certain angles my legs look big. any tips for beggining and how to make legs skinnier? - from Anawrecksitboys, an online community for boys with eating disorders
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I really hate that illnesses can be trendy. The South Park boys riff on this in their last movie with the AIDS song, but it isn't a new phenomenom. "Dying slowly, but elegantly of consumption was such a Romantic notion that friends suggested to Victor Hugo that he should acquire consumption. Even today, we find the wasting away of poets like Keats to be the epitome of the Romantic writer" (from Disabled in the Romantic and Victorian Ages). I don't think there's anything particularly romantic about hacking up bloody sputum, but what do I know?
I do know my sore throat isn't a joy.
Not all is bad, though. Two women just showed up at my place a few minutes ago to purchase a hip scarf and some jewellery. I'm $75 richer than I was an hour ago. Woo hoo! I still haven't made my pie, though. If I hurry, I might have time before my class....
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Trendy illnesses
Date: 2004-11-06 06:33 pm (UTC)From:Re: Trendy illnesses
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Date: 2004-11-06 07:22 pm (UTC)From:Re: Trendy illnesses
Date: 2004-11-06 10:38 pm (UTC)From:And here I always just wanted a
tapeworm.
Wtf is up with that picture of
the skeletal girl? I mean, I like
skinny, but, not that bad. That's
a Photoshopped image, right?
I used to hang out in this area
of Victoria where I always saw
these women I thought were really
attractive. Then I realised they
were going into the tuberculosis
clinic.
Re: Trendy illnesses
Date: 2004-11-07 04:34 am (UTC)From:Re: Trendy illnesses
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Date: 2004-11-06 06:45 pm (UTC)From:I could go on and on....but I wont....but yea reading stuff like that...makes me piss mad
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Date: 2004-11-06 06:55 pm (UTC)From:The people who mis-read this as a trend never see that because the fashion industry - which encourages anorexia, lets face it - recognises that the actual after effects of an eating disorder aren't "pretty" at all, and that here's no way you can safely sell alopecia, dental destruction, physical exhaustion and eventual death while still selling hair care products, tooth whiteners, sporty clothing and medicinal sexual aides.
Remember heroin chic, the last "cool" illness? It took people inside the fashion industry losing their loved ones and a concerted threat of sanctions to turn that trend around.
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Date: 2004-11-06 07:01 pm (UTC)From:people dont see the real things a ed brings about...i have missing teeth, shitty hair,a heart problem and a list of other things....Iam slowly starting to get better,,,but yea i just wish people could see
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Date: 2004-11-06 09:31 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-11-07 12:52 am (UTC)From:thats what gets people pople think they can just "become" anorexic or bulimic and its the solution to their looks and everything else...they think it s a game...but oh well.
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Date: 2004-11-07 07:45 am (UTC)From:And some of them spawn a generation of idol worshippers....
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Date: 2004-11-07 03:10 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-11-08 12:21 am (UTC)From:Of course, I also know that the problem isn't actually oriented around food. Food and eating are symptoms. The disease is control, and feeling a lack thereof, and that's why eating disorders are so damn tricky to diagnose and treat.
/me makes unhappy face at what these kids are going to have to face - if they survive.
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Date: 2004-11-08 02:12 am (UTC)From:Several of my friends and acquaintances grew up with eating disorders, and some are still fighting with these problems. I think one of them started off this way because bulimia is what all the cool girls do. As far as I can tell, it started out as a "cool thing to do", and escalated into a full-blown disorder. I don't think these kids realize what they're tinkering with, here.
I see similar things happening with other self-abusing habits, like cutting. When I managed the comic/game shop, I met two very stupid boys who would quote Nine Inch Nails lyrics to me and show off all their artistic cuts in an attempt to impress me with their coolness. All it did was make me think they were idiots. When I was a teen, I occasionally punched and bit myself out of self-hate. I certainly didn't do it to impress anyone, and at that point, had never even heard of anyone doing such a thing to themselves.
I'm glad I got out of that behaviour pattern....
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