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Thinspiration. by ^Hanratty-Stock:iconHanratty-Stock:

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I read something the other day about 'thinspiration' - where girls idolise someone thin and try to be like them
This lead onto the finding of many pro-anorexia website. Which I personally find very worrying.
There is enough pressure on the girls AND boys of today to be thin and beautiful without website that help you:-
  • Hide your eating habits.
  • Lose a pound a day.
  • Disguise the sound of vomiting.
  • Sneak laxatives into your food.
  • Count the calories in everything you eat.
  • Share your 'successes' at not eating.


    • Anorexia is a mental disease. Don't like that phrase? Mental disease? Tough fucking shit. It is.
    And it never goes away.
    Ever.

    So what are your views on these pro-anorexic websites? How do you feel about them?
    If you support them you really better have damn good reasons.

    I hate it when people say to me "Oooo you're a great size." "I wish I was like you."
    No you don't. I've ranted about clothes before and stuff. So I wont rant again.
    But I don't want to be a thinspiration. I don't want people to have my figure. It's not a healthy figure.

    But I seriously think that these website are damaging for people's health.

    I know first hand of the effects of this disease. I am not going into it here as I don't feel I can.
    Let's just say it's taken me two years to get to seven stone, if I could drop back to six stone I would do it in an instant. <EDIT 17th March> Back to 6 and a half stone. It's uncontrollable.

    Visit the pro-anorexic websites? I could fucking write one.

    End.

    Comments


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    ~closemyeyes-stock Sep 10, 2006, 2:30:43 PM
    i think this is an amazing stamp to make, one of the most thought provoking i have ever seen.

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    =astralpackrat Sep 10, 2006, 4:16:20 PM
    My fiance went through an eating disorder struggle in college before we met. One of her best friends, who has become a good friend of mine as well, also went through a similar ordeal.

    Both are doing much better today, each with the help of someone who loves them and lets them know that we care about them for who they are, not what they might feel that others want them to be.

    It is a difficult admission to make, that you have such a disease. But the more people who have the courage to do so, the more others may hopefully be able to cast aside the stigma and see that they really do have another option. It's more than accepting that being yourself is okay; it's that others may find you more attractive when you can be happy with who you are.

    If someone sees you as more attractive for hurting yourself to be what they want you to be, they're not someone whose opinion should matter or whose company you should want to keep.

    Thanks for having the courage to speak out Fiona. :hug:

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    "Quickly! Ride the pig!"
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    ~ashy-stock Sep 10, 2006, 4:22:01 PM
    well Id love to stick this in my journal (When I get my sub) But im not exactly a "thinspiration" lol but! I will stick it in there just to get it out to the people that dont realise that anorexia is a horrible disease and it shouldnt be shrugged off! GREAT STAMP! :hug: :hug:

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    ^Hanratty-Stock Sep 11, 2006, 1:05:21 AM
    Sometimes people have to speak out. Sometimes I get so sick of people commenting on my 'perfect' figure that I just really want to yell "Yes! It's perfect because for two years I didn't eat."

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    Fiona
    Stock and Resources Gallery Moderator
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    ~VossBC Sep 11, 2006, 5:33:56 AM
    Hear, Hear!

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    Fill me up with your heat, with your noise, with your dirt, overdo me.
    Let me dance to your beat, make it loud, let it hurt, run it through me.
    :iconchaded:
    ~chaded Sep 11, 2006, 10:40:40 AM
    Best Stamp EVER!

    One of my best friends went through an eating disorder and it was so hard for us all to see her while she sifefred through it.

    I believe there is a need for education in these matters and more support for people young and old to be happy with whom they are

    --
    "I think sexual seduction is the place where you lose control of yourself and it becomes a very dangerous place" Cathy de Monchaux
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    ~eclipsed-soul Sep 15, 2006, 12:16:22 PM
    I was anorexic a few years ago, and even then I found the pro-anorexic sites completely disgusting. It's so horrible how they encourage each other ._. I mean, I wanted support to like, get better and over come it with anyone else suffering. Not be encouraged to keep going down the path I was going down.

    So placing in my journal stamp collections. It's so horrible to see this ._.'
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