Topic : 02/25 Deadly Thin

                                                                         Oh ,  Aimee

                                                                  Sorrow of my heart

                                                     How long have I grieved for you?

I Just wanted to say that my heart goes out to this girl.  Everytime I see this on tv I cry.  I want so bad to reach into the television and just grab her and hold her.  I see so much pain in her eyes and I am praying that Dr Phil saves this girl's life.  I am going to pray for her comeback and can't wait to see how things turn out for her!

I don't know any personally, but it's possible for men to have eating disorders too. In fact, the consensus of anorexics in...(trying to remember....) I believe it was 2002, I could be mistaken, turned up a larger percentage of men than women.

When I saw the commercial for this episode, I was really scared for this woman. To be honest, I'm surprised she's not dead, or in the hospital, dying. To some of us it may seem rediculous that she is afriad of Dr. Phil thinking she's fat, but if she's that severe of an anorexic and bulimic, then she doesn't really see that she's wrong about it.

I feel sad for her too, because she's probably never going to be able to have kids. Even if Dr. Phil does save her, I think it's too late to save the possibility of children. My aunt had a friend who was anorexic, and she got help and recovered, but unfortunately the result was that she ended up sterile and can't have kids anymore. 

I really do hope Dr. Phil can help her. It's truely sad to see someone so far into an eating disorder like that.

Coming from a family of three girls I can say that between all of us, we must have covered every eating disorder there is. I feel so badly for this gal, but it is not as easy to change as many folks would like to think. Whatever issue(s) are the driving force behind her illness, they will have to be addressed and processed before anything will ever change. This is so much more complex than just getting her to eat...just watching her in the pre-video it appears that there is already some damage done regarding her cognitive abilities.

I will watch in hopes that the doctors can offer this young lady some serious help in (at least) getting her 'stablized', this gal is knocking on death's door right now...it is actually a wonder that her heart hasn't given out yet. As this progresses her organs will shut down, her thinking will become more hazy..and sadly she will die.

I hope that it isn't too late for her..but she is very close. I had a female cousin who died from anorexia/bulemia..she was rail thin for a long time...and then one day her heart just stopped beating..she was only 24.

I wish her olnly the best of luck...she has a long journey ahead of her.

I just wanted to write a quick note to say that I personally know Aimee and her family and I think it's very important to make people aware that she has a VERY VERY supportive family!  Every family has their problems, but Aimee's weren't anything more than the average persons.  I think that people immediately assume that the parents were horrible people or something absolutely terrible happened to Aimee as a child,...but that may not always be the case.  With that said, I do believe that Aimee has inner struggles that need to be dealt with and to this point she has not been able to do that with the support she has been given.  I pray that through this experience that Aimee is able to have hope again and strength to get through the hard work ahead of her,...that she will have a renewal of her zest for life! 

If I could do it you can too. 6 years ago I was a 90 pound annorexic.  My who world was a mess.  I had the most controlling mother ever, all but one of my children was out of control and my one good daughter was murdered by her husband.  I was in and out of the best eating disorder clinics includiing Center for Change and Remuda Life.  I fought treatment.  My food was my only friend.  The experts gave up on me and I was almost put in a State instituation for life.  After 35 years of fighting this demond the light finally turned on.  I put into practice all that I learned and did everything in my power to get this monkey off my back.  I had to divorce my husband of 28 years because he wasn't good for me.  Two years later I was still white knuckleing it when I met the most wonderful man in the whole world.  He treats me like a queen and my self-esteem is soaring.  After my controlling mother passed away so did my eating disorder.  I have been completing eating disorder free for 3 years now.  Wow, you wouldn't believe the freedom and power I feel.  6 years ago, I wish I could have seen a glimpse at the future.  Life is really beautiful.

NEVER NEVER GIVE UP!

Deadly Doctor Phil Thin. Are you kidding me? I  weigh amost 127 pounds and loving it. I donot care how---

much you weigh at all. See you on Monday Feburary 25th, 2008. Sincerley Your. Russell Vlaanderen.-------