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Because I have spent the last half hour staring in horror, you will too.
Check it out! Anorexia is a perfectly healthy lifestyle!
Unreal. This website is all about how anorexia - shortened chummily to ana - is a choice rather than a disorder. It passes on tips and inspirational prose and poetry, and THERE ARE PICTURES OH GOD.
The most frightening part of the website to me is this page, all about "safe foods" and vital nutrients, because it almost, almost, seems sensible. It discusses in detail what nutrients you need and which foods provides them and what can happen to you if you don't get them. It makes practical suggestions for fasting and still getting some of the things you need (Diet V-8 Splash is love, apparently). It very nearly makes sense.
Then, of course, you wander here, see the prose poem about how anorexia is self-control, realize the context you are supposed to be taking it in, scream, and lunge for the nearest brownie.
I have to say that I love this stuff, though. I have a fascination for things that I know little to nothing of, like other cultures or religions or mental illnesses or aspects of history, things about people and how they live and what they do and what they come up with. Something like this site is a pleasure, an intimate look right inside an apparent subculture built on a shared mental disorder, a subculture I'd never heard of till an hour ago. I love learning about things like this. I mean, yeah, it's hella disturbing and upsetting and I want to go make cookies and feed these people, but it's also something I never knew about before that fits nicely into that psychological scope of things that intrigue me so.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a beer to go finish and some potato chips to wash down. And I am going to enjoy every damn calorie.
Check it out! Anorexia is a perfectly healthy lifestyle!
Unreal. This website is all about how anorexia - shortened chummily to ana - is a choice rather than a disorder. It passes on tips and inspirational prose and poetry, and THERE ARE PICTURES OH GOD.
The most frightening part of the website to me is this page, all about "safe foods" and vital nutrients, because it almost, almost, seems sensible. It discusses in detail what nutrients you need and which foods provides them and what can happen to you if you don't get them. It makes practical suggestions for fasting and still getting some of the things you need (Diet V-8 Splash is love, apparently). It very nearly makes sense.
Then, of course, you wander here, see the prose poem about how anorexia is self-control, realize the context you are supposed to be taking it in, scream, and lunge for the nearest brownie.
I have to say that I love this stuff, though. I have a fascination for things that I know little to nothing of, like other cultures or religions or mental illnesses or aspects of history, things about people and how they live and what they do and what they come up with. Something like this site is a pleasure, an intimate look right inside an apparent subculture built on a shared mental disorder, a subculture I'd never heard of till an hour ago. I love learning about things like this. I mean, yeah, it's hella disturbing and upsetting and I want to go make cookies and feed these people, but it's also something I never knew about before that fits nicely into that psychological scope of things that intrigue me so.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a beer to go finish and some potato chips to wash down. And I am going to enjoy every damn calorie.
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I have an acquaintance offline who is anorexic, and it's a terrible disorder. Pro-ana sites scare the crap out of me. I am really impressed by MHP's take on them -- she has clearly put a lot of thought into the subject and isn't just giving a knee-jerk reaction.