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title: "An unwanted and disturbing discovery"
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date: 2018-06-23
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So somehow — And I really don’t know how — I ended up on a ‘pro-ana’ forum just now.
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‘pro-ana’, for those who haven’t yet had to find out, is the promotion of anorexia as something healthy.
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**What. The. Fuck?!**
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Now, I’m not anorexic. I have body image problems — doesn’t everyone. Not to the point of an eating disorder. But I have known — closely — several people who have struggled with that.
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So I think I’m valid in saying the existence of anything ‘pro’ anorexia is flat out dangerous. Some of the stuff I read within a few minutes shocked and scared me. Positivity and encouragement towards people purging meals and fasting. Towards people being lightheaded from lack of calories.
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These are people at their most vulnerable. Already battling their own minds and just waiting for them are…
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Mutual support groups to help each other dive deeper into illness. More to the point, to reframe their illness as something positive.
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I don’t know why I’m bothering to explain myself here. Anyone with half a brain would have been going ‘what the fuck’ along with me at the definition of the word.
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Anyone who isn’t? To them I say…**What the fuck?**
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So I don’t really have a point here. But I had to write this anyway. I just cannot fathom the existence of such a movement, and the harm it must cause.
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I just… What is *wrong* with people? *What is wrong with the world?*
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