Replies to 'Anorexia'

i totally missed the message from the person you just responded to before.......  i'm glad you posted them........  i would have responded had i seen it........ wonder how i missed it.......  gosh and no one just says i want an eating disorder ya know.........  it's an innocent thing you start that ends up not being nearly as innocent as we thought.  then there is no way you would ever admit to having one to yourself or anyone else............  i can believe the person struggled with the thought of stuff like that but then well yeah....... haaaaaa ........... if it were so easy to just say i want an ED then it would be so easy to say ok i don't want ED anymore i think i'll stop that now........   i hope this doesn't sound rude to the person that wrote that..... i surely don't mean it rude at all!!!  maybe they did and do think about it but we just don't tell those kinds of things to the people around us and then when we start doing it we don't realize it....... heck i was saying i would never do that when i heard stories about people with eating disorders not realizing i was doing what i said i would do and already had an eating disorder.......... 

oh yeah........ also maybe if that person in some way is having a hard time and didn't know how to say it or react well get over it isn't the thing to say..........  sometimes it is as you said and they just want attention and sometimes it's not......  sometimes people just don't know.......  although i can see where it seems like an attention seeker we can never fully know.........  one reason is we have never been in that persons shoes........  we don't know what happened in their life.......  maybe it was something the person wanted but then again didn't want....... maybe their mom doesn't give them a lot of attention or something and thought if they  told their mom she would get affirmation... maybe they need affirmation so they wanted healthy attention but used an unhealthy thing to get what was needed.......... you never really know.......  and there could be one to many people in their life telling them what you said, "get over it"  there could be a lot of people.........  none of those things may not be so but we should always really think about those things and that we never know what has happened in someones life.......  you never know what is truely going on.......  so maybe next time you should tell them they are looking for attention and to get over it........  just a thought.........  sorry if it bothers you just thought i would see if you could understand what i was saying

I totally agreed with that. people just "starve" and automatically say to themselves, "Hey, I have an ED!" it doesn't automatically come like that.

I especially dislike when girls say "I wish I had the willpower to be anorexic." I get so angry because it's like, you have NO IDEA what you are talking about! eating disorders have nothing to do with food or willpower. ah.

 

anyway, my comment I made earlier got totally ignored. I mean I don't know, it kind of felt like I wasn't being heard and no one gave support, unlike everyone else. it was kind of long.

 

but I wish the best of luck to Emma and maxi and anorexics who are trying to recover.

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