Pro Anorexia

As harmful as they let them. they dont generally find them without looking in the first place. parents should monitor what their kids look at also :)
 
Poison to the mind

I used to have a lot of trouble with disordered eating (I was more of a binger and purger) and I've some across some of these sites.

Even though I know in my head that the whole disordered eating deal is bad if I spend too much time around the influence of those with eating disorders I feel the pull and the urge to get back in just for a little bit to slim down.

So my say is that they can be like poison for those who are fighting to stay away from eating disorders and the temptations are strong at times.

sights like this scare me.
 
I'd agree with the above. I was anorexic quite badly (hospitalised) and this was before the internet with pro ana sites (they were just starting to come out as I left the place) I'd say magazines with models in were what kept me going, gave me something to fixate and focus on achieveing and that was without someone activly saying "this will make you very happy". I think I'd be struggling alot more had I latched onto the pronana sites back then. Even now I have a blanket ban on them, its hard enough seeing size 4-6 anorexic girls at my local gym, and thats without them dressed up to look picture perfect!
 
If I'm honest I'm pretty sure those kind of websites were a major contribution to my disordered eating habits in the past, I stumbled over them on a forum I'm a member of. The person wasn't promoting them but I checked it out and for a long time after that I was seriously addicted to them, not good.
I'm much better now though.
 
....its when they start with "hello friends" (when they do NOT know you) that you know its all just going to be down hill...
 
Hi all, iv spent 20 years with an eating disorder but spent the last year without one, it has been a long long battle and i would agree that these pro ana sites are very dangerous, the pull to go back to my old eating habits is very strong and i have to use all my will power to keep focused, what caused alot of my problems was the magazines/ media promoting slim girls like pin up models, i began to think that if i didnt look like that then i was not worthy of being attractive! i have spent the last year on a healthy diet and seeing my GP once a month and so far i have lost 3 stone with just 1 more to lose to be at my healthy weight, sounds daft that i had an eating disorder but ended up neading to lose weight! but i started of with anorexia at 13 yrs old up till about the age of 21 when i was starting a family, the anorexia went for a while but came back as bulimia so then i was bulimic from then on up till a year ago, i piled on weight and sank to an all time low but now iv lost most of the weight and i have a normal diet, i still see my GP once a month to keep me on track but if i was to get on some of them websites then im sure it would be very bad for me.
 
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