Anorexia is a common problem with Young Woman

United States
October 8, 2009 11:40am CST
Allot of young woman want to look beautiful and think they are fat when they are not fat. They starve themselves and don't barely eat anything. Wishing to get thinner. Even when they are thin, they still think they are fat. And they still starve themselves. The sooner these woman get help the better. The longer they keep starving themselves of important nutrition, their body decays and they can have permanent problems such as Osteoporosis at an early age, teeth decay and teeth falling out, heart attacks at an early age (even at 20 years old!!)anemia, hair thinning, severe weight loss with bones showing, having trouble maintaining warmth for their frail bodies and death. The sooner they get help the better. The longer they wait, the worse things can be for the woman with Anorexia. Thank God my mom told me she was worried about me when I was a young teenager in the first stages of Anorexia. Because my mom felt worried and upset, I felt bad and started eating normal again. But if she hadn't said anything I could have kept "barely" eating anything and being obsessed with calories and fat. I was 115 pounds but I saw pictures of me and I looked bony and thin. I did not look healthy at all. I'm so glad my mom said something to me and cared about me. But some people that have Anorexia don't care what people think. They don't believe them and really believe they are fat when they are not. They have a problem that is severe and many of them die from. Only a small amount of Anorexics survive and get better. Many of them die from Heart Attacks, starving to death and malnutrition. If you know of someone that is in the beginning stage of Anorexia and starting to have the behaviors of being to worried of what they eat, please tell them they look beautiful and they are not fat. Love them and be there for them.
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Pigglies
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
12 Oct 09
Actually a lot of times telling someone they aren't fat is exactly what they want to hear. Then they'll starve themselves more because they figure if they lost 10 pounds already and you told them they look great, 20, 30, or 40 pounds will look even better. But yeah, they definitely need a confidence boost. My mom has been anorexic practically her whole life. She started losing weight when she got a little chubby as a kid, and then got addicted to it. For her wedding she was determined to be under 100 pounds. Then several years later she had kids and stopped worrying about all that for awhile. She got to being slightly overweight and freaked out. Now she looks horribly skinny and I want her to care about her health instead. In high school I sort of tried to please her by being skinny for awhile. I went from 135 to 95. But it's odd how your mind can take over when you're that starved. I would stare at my "fat" self and wonder why I couldn't look thin. Now there are only a few photos to look back at since back then I didn't want any pictures, but I looked disgusting. I know I'm obviously not at my thinnest right now, but right now I'm at the thinnest when I look at myself in the mirror. I eat more than I should, but I exercise. And I look in the mirror and overall I like what I see now. Sure, there are always parts I'd like to change. But now I wouldn't even think of starvation as a method for changing those parts. If I was starving myself I wouldn't be able to run anymore.