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Pro Ana????

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 10:28

websiteas that promote anorexia

YOung girls go on ther to get tips to lose weight.

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 10:30

you have to registar. 'thinspiration' models who have been airbbrushed to look skeletal and are role modles

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Blandmum · 22/02/2006 10:30

Horrid.

I do know that there is a Mnetter who was involved with this in the past and felt that this helped to stop doing real damage to herself.

Not sure if I agree but prepare for possibly more disagreement than you would expect.

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 10:37

another one

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 10:38

HAving seen a docu on them I am disgusted by them. Teenage girls, obsessed with looking anorexic

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Yorkiegirl · 22/02/2006 10:41

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Marina · 22/02/2006 10:54

Very sad, especially when you see that the "Recovery: discuss getting healthy with people who want to get healthy" topic has fewest threads of them all
God beety what a deeply troubling phenomenon.

hunkermunker · 22/02/2006 10:57

Scary - what a weird society we live in

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 11:20

surprised tehre is not more unroar here

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 16:39

not a hot topic then?

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tarantula · 22/02/2006 16:44

Saw a program about this the other week. Was very scary and frightening TBH. the amount of energy that these people put into not eating was gobsmacking.

Socci · 22/02/2006 16:47

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Socci · 22/02/2006 16:49

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Blandmum · 22/02/2006 16:50

Socci, I think you are right, someone on MN was a mod on a proana site

Socci · 22/02/2006 16:51

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motherinferior · 22/02/2006 16:52

I think there are different sorts of site, though; I've just been working on a report on self-harming, and the sites on that issue are apparently very much focused on recovery or management...

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 16:54

the docu I saw was not about recovery. It was ways to con your parents into beleiving you are eating, it was fake picutres of models with ribs sticking out, it was advice on losing 6 lbs in a week

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Socci · 22/02/2006 16:55

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motherinferior · 22/02/2006 16:56

I know, Beety, I was just talking about some sites tackling related issues. I think self-harming is a much more 'shaming' issue than anorexia, which seems to have developed its own 'glamour' (understandably, given our obsession with thinness )

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 16:56

yup socci

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Socci · 22/02/2006 16:57

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 16:57

yes Mi, the poor girls, desperate to be so skinny that they don't have breasts or hips. And each person egging the others on

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 16:58

socci, it was on channel 4 this morning.

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motherinferior · 22/02/2006 16:59

I do think that is just the extreme of a social condemnation of breasts and hips and a bit of fat on you

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Beetroot · 22/02/2006 17:57

yes of course MI. But they all look so awful. They don't seem to realse that the celebrtys they ahve been emulating have all had body augmentation and are air brushed

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