Someone want to explain to me how in the bloody fuck pro-Ana sites are "supportive?!" They don't support any desire to seek treatment, god no. In fact, they outright DISCOURAGE such behavior. These sites pretend to wear the white veil of martyrdom, when they actually wear the black veil of death; Widespread encouragement of a slow death hardly seems 'supportive' of anything BUT death..

Sorry, this just pisses me off. I was reading random diaries in DL and I happened across some that were pro-Ana. One girl has an old diary and because she apparently no longer has the disorder, she no longer updates her pro-Ana diary (yet, she runs a pro-Ana diaryring still).

I am not wholly insensitive to the plight of those with eating disorders, I'm really not. I just don't get how these fucks justify pro-Ana sites by calling them support groups. I have SEEN support groups. They focus on getting better and curing, or identifying the underlying problems causing the disorder. They don't feed the problem further, like these sites do. You don't need to fucking glorify death in order to support someone.

These girls (mostly women, but there are some men, I know) walk around and whine that they are not ready to get better and that is why they are pro-Ana, because the girls with whom they identify there do not pressure them to seek help. Fine. ANY eating d/o support group does that, though. I have seen lots of them. They all support each other, regardless of whether they wish to get well or not, and I never see them pressure each other to seek help. You need proof of how they"support" each other? Go check out guestbooks and such of Ana girls in DL, since it is hard to actually find pro-Ana sites (many search engines have banned them and even more have been shut down permanently). I saw a girl come into one, tell us she was 5'3 and 103 pounds, ask if she was fat and then say she is an Ana wannabe. Then I see them whining about Britney Spears being fat and everyone bobbing their lollipop fucking heads at this acknowledgement.

Fucking feeding frenzy (go alliteration! yey!). Justifying the glorification of destroying another's body, soul and mind, PURELY to feel better about not wishing to get well yourself, thus ensuring that many of these girls will never get help until they are forced by their oft oblivious parents and peers. Selfish as all fucking hell.

I understand what contributes to develoiping an eating d/o, I do. I relate to it, in fact. No, i have never had an eating d/o myself, but I have come closer than I ever should have. Fortunately, I was always smart enough to recognize what I was doing, and more importantly, WHY i was doing it. I am lucky.

Would I ever, however, encourage others to continue wallowing in their own suicide? Fucking fuck no! Let's face it, girls. Be honest here. Pro-Ana has NOTHING to do with supporting people like you. Pro-Ana is all about having a fucking pity party where no one gets better, everyong encourages the sickness and everyone glorifies it as it suits their own needs. Because junkies who live in crackhouses with their dealers? They always get better when they decide they are ready. The people who live in the crackhouse with them? The dealer? Yes, those people are merely appreciative of the junkie's plight and because they relate, they provide the junkie with the support they need to get better (/sarcasm). Get fucking real.

I am sorry, but this pro-Ana movement angers me beyond expression. Let's call a spade a spade here andrecognize it for what it really is: A pro-suicide movement.

**good thing no one reads my diary, btw, else I would be expecting a serious amount of hate mail and whiny bitches crying about how I "just don't understand," and asking me why I have to "be hating on them."

***Edited, because I simply had to add one last thing...Came across a diary that pretty much attributed eating d/os solely to negative self-image. In other words, the magazines and the barbies did it. Now, I do not deny that eating disorders have gone on the rise and that these things *may* contribute slightly. They don't cause it, however. It is certainly part of the issue, but ultimately, the source of the pain lies deeper and the eating d/o manifests itself in people who simply are incapable of controlling their impluses/emotions/whatever. Many pro-Ana's describe it as a lifestyle, one they voluntarily chose as a reaction to the pressures to be thin, much like a drug addict chooses to use drugs for whatever reason initially causes them to start using drugs. But, to make the claim that you do NOT have an illness when you habitually engage in such activity?! That there is nothing underlying your continuing need to engage in such acts?! To pretend like you have it all under control and you're anorexic because you just want to be thin and once you reach your goals, you can quit anytime?! To use clinical definitions, that's crazy-talk. Attributing eating disorders solely to Barbie, REGARDLESS of whether the disease was chosen or accidental, is like saying rape is about sex. In fact, pretending like that was the reason you "chose" this disease in the first place is symptomatic of the fucking disease! People who say that can all fuck right the fuck off. Unless I like you, in which case we can engage in a reasonable, civil discourse on the subjects, during which I prove you wrong and have you publically flogged for ever saying such things;-)