Comments on: Pro Anorexia “Pro Ana” Sites on Facebook

By: cleancutmedia

cleancutmedia — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:23:51 +0000

Hey Anna,

That’s some great insight. It is important to know that not everyone on such sites are neccessarily encouraging each other to keep at it, rather helping each other not to do it.

thanks!

By: Anna Skinnier

Anna Skinnier — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:14:01 +0000

Facebook is the only place I’ve ever found support. There’s girls on there who are pro-Ana in the sense that they want to diet n be super skinny (attention?) and people with real eating disorders just trying to get through the day. there’s even more girl on there just trying to recover anonymously. telling my real friends has been disastrous… these girls are real help and have helped me stay self-harm free for the past 6 MONTHS… that’s the best I’ve done while dealing with untreated clinical depression.

The first friend i told about my eating disorder offered to make me a sandwich, then told me id be fine, i just needed to eat something. The next person got mad at me, and yelled at me for caring so much about what i looked like, and that if i was fat what was she? she told me to shut up, that i was way skinny and i didnt need to diet.

but its not about the eating or the caring what i looked like. they just didnt understand. Im afraid to tell my parents, theyve offered little support with my depression, which totally killed my grades last year in school, and lost me all my friends and sports i was in.

These girls are more help than harm. not all of us are parading around boasting about how cool it is to be anorexic. some of us just need someone who understands, without outing ourselves, and ruining our real lives. we dont go around recruiting young girls, or anyone to be anorexic. were just looking for understanding.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:59:19 +0000

Thank you for the post. I actually didn’t know that such sites existed.

I have friends who suffer from eating disorders. I have learned that one of the worst things they can engage in is in developing dependent relationships with other girls with the same disorder. I am not saying that they should not have friendships with people with the same disorder, but a person who is suffering from this condition needs to surround themselves with healthy relationships of people who love and care for them and help them come out of this condition instead of sinking into it. I have also learned that this disorders warps the individual’s perception of reality, so feeding yourself with your own kind of thoughts and people with those same kinds of thoughts will only lead the person to further depression, loneliness and meaningless.
It breaks my heart to see so many girls fall into this kind of disorder because I have seen the kind of damage it can cause them and also the pain others who love them go through. I would encourage any girl who is suffering from this disorder to reach out for help- at the very least receive medical treatment. Below is a link of a recovery center that has helped some of my dear friends recover from this disorder.- There is always hope!

http://www.remudaranch.com/