Eating Disorders Support Group
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Hello all! Just had a story I needed to vent in order to get some frustration out...
Today in school I heard two sophomores talking about someone named "Ana." I have a friend named "Anna", so I thought they might be talking about her...nope. They were talking about starving themselves in the hope of getting an eating disorder and the fact that "Ana" forces them to do it...wtf?!
Sorry if this offends anyone, but the terms "Ana" and "Mia" REALLY bug me. They are far too cutesy little names for something so lethal. I understand that part of recovering from an eating disorder is giving a separate voice to the disorder, but it seems these terms are being thrown around like Anorexia and Bulimia are "friends" you can acquire if you try hard enough.
Maybe it's just the context I've heard them in that makes me so annoyed by these names, but it just seems to me to be under miming the gravity and deadliness of eating disorders to see all these "Pro Ana" people prancing around desperate to be slaves to "Ana."
It's anorexia, not Ana. It's Bulimia, not Mia. This isn't a game, princess, leave your tiara at the door. This will ruin your life.
Today in school I heard two sophomores talking about someone named "Ana." I have a friend named "Anna", so I thought they might be talking about her...nope. They were talking about starving themselves in the hope of getting an eating disorder and the fact that "Ana" forces them to do it...wtf?!
Sorry if this offends anyone, but the terms "Ana" and "Mia" REALLY bug me. They are far too cutesy little names for something so lethal. I understand that part of recovering from an eating disorder is giving a separate voice to the disorder, but it seems these terms are being thrown around like Anorexia and Bulimia are "friends" you can acquire if you try hard enough.
Maybe it's just the context I've heard them in that makes me so annoyed by these names, but it just seems to me to be under miming the gravity and deadliness of eating disorders to see all these "Pro Ana" people prancing around desperate to be slaves to "Ana."
It's anorexia, not Ana. It's Bulimia, not Mia. This isn't a game, princess, leave your tiara at the door. This will ruin your life.
I unfortunately have to live two lives----one by myself--with my severe ED------and one w/hubby, maintaining his nourishment. cooking it touching it smelling it-etc- -----going out tonite because i HAVE TO--
Because there is nothing wrong w/me-------Gatherings of course overwhelm me-- and i have no idea--- whats in store for me this evening,,,,