encouragement for girls who wished to continue their anorexia.This kind of thing honestly makes me a little angry. I've seen kids both in my city and across the world who are malnourished and who do not have enough to eat. They are starving and dying against their wills. They want food. And then I see girls who have food... and they refuse to eat it.
If you have or have struggled with an eating disorder, please don't think I dislike you or misunderstand you or am angry at you. I do realize that this is a disorder that stems from issues of emotional and mental health. I empathize with girls who struggle with eating disorders. I understand that this is something difficult to control and to overcome, and it is not something that many girls plan or want to have.
It's not the struggling girl who makes me angry- it's websites like these that hurt girls that upsets me so much.
I came across a list on this pro-ana website that literally made me feel sick. It was called 40 Reasons Not to Eat and it gave forty "legitimate" reasons to help encourage anorexic girls to not eat when they're tempted.
How can this help anything? It makes me want to cry. It makes me want to scream.
It makes me want to write my own solution... called 40 Reasons to Eat.
So every other day for the next few days, I'll be posting five of the reasons not to eat listed in this article... and five reasons of my own to contradict this list.
If you're anorexic, perhaps this can help to encourage you in the right way. If you have a loved one who is struggling with an eating disorder, perhaps this can help you see their morphed perspective and be able to encourage them to stay strong and withstand temptations to not eat.
So keep on the look out. The first five reasons to eat should be posted on Thursday. :)
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