#anOrexia

[support]

Everything okay?

If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, you are not alone.  

If you are in the United States, please try:

National Eating Disorders Association (support, resources, treatment options)

If you are outside the United States, visit IASP to find help lines related to eating disorders for your country. 

For self-help courses on body image and general peer support, please try Koko. 

For more resources, please visit our Counseling & Prevention Resources page for a list of services that may be able to help.

[pearlofthesea03]

Whoever you are, I love you and hope the best for you, but hurting people like this and encouraging disorder is absolutely disgusting. Please, don't believe what this person is saying, 'Ana' is not real and is a horrible illness. 'She' does not love you, this person does not love you, but I do and I want what's best for you. My heart goes out to anyone struggling with their body and this disorder.

Affirmations for EDs. Even if you don't believe them now, say them and work towards believing them one day

1. I do not need to have an excuse for being hungry

2. Eating will let me enjoy life

3. Eating will help the people I love

4. I do not deserve to feel pain

5. Just because this amount made me feel good yesterday doesn't mean it's enough for today

6. 'Being good' is not how long I exercise or how little I eat

7. Starvation does not protect me

8. Being thin won't fix my struggles

9. No one needs to be perfect

[heartz4thinspo]

About to binge? Think again.

Drink some water, you're bored; not hungry.

Count down from your current weight.

Think about why you're doing this.

Thinspo or fatspo..which one are you and which one do you want to be?

Think about your goal weight, and how far you are from it.

Think about your ugw, and how far you are from it.

Do you really want to binge?

[desultory-suggestions]

It's okay to be scraping by. Even if you would rather be doing better, even if you technically could be doing better. Sometimes the weight of things just pushes us down. Keep moving forward, even if is slow. In time you will be back where you want to be.

[catgirl-kaiju]

me: hmh getting hungry

adhd: u can't eat rn you're already doing something

autism: there is nothing in the house that u like

anorexia: like u even need any calories

trauma: u've barely done anything today. you don't deserve to eat

little anime girl: burg her

me: burg her...

me:

little anime girl:

[luvanamia]

Don't binge

Why would you want to be fat?

Why would you choose to be fat?

Disgusting

[imfartooobsessedwithkpop]

*sighs* gets vibrator to pass them time while restricting

[lilfoxbones]

I want to be small for him

I need to be small for him

He says I'm perfect

I don't believe him

I need to be perfect for him

[lostalice404]

need friends

i need friends to lose weight with no softies plzs

[dreamdropsystemarchive]

we're getting bad again..

[hakeem0n]

seeing pictures of myself at my lw and realising I no longer look like that:

[444sally]

looking for moots!!^_^ (target audience)

[doppelganger-ana]

Ed Films

To The Bone

Girl Interrupted

Dying To Be Thin

THIN (documentary)

When Friendship Kills (A Secret Between Friends)

Perfect Body

Sharing The Secret

Hunger Point

[godhatesadam666]

301 cal breakfast

Today I've planned to eat 515 cals but with house work some dancing and yoga I'll definitely be in the negative anyway

[missmastectomy]

I was hesitant to write this post, but I want to talk about why so many women and teenage girls are getting double mastectomies.

The justification a lot of trans people use for elective double mastectomies is that "top surgery" helps people feel comfortable in their bodies. Traditionally, this surgery was restricted to transmen. In the recent decade, however, nonbinary identified and even non-trans identified women have been getting mastectomies. I remember clear as day when my coworker (who identified as a "cis" woman) told me that at 18 she was planning on saving for top surgery. I myself got my breasts removed when I identified as nonbinary, having been on testosterone for 2 years.

It's important to remember that no person is born wanting surgery. Society creates conditions that are hostile to women, GNC, and gay people, and this hostility encourages a dissociated state. The body is removed from the mind - instead of the body being an intrinsic part of your personhood, a mechanism through which we experience the world, it instead becomes ornamental. This is perfectly represented by all forms of non-reconstructive cosmetic surgery, which risk people's health for entirely aesthetic reasons.

So, why do teen girls want to remove their breasts? For those of who experienced unwanted sexual advances from a young age, the answer is intuitive. Breasts are inherently sexualized. They are not seen as a vital organ that contributes to bodily function and health, but as a decoration, the only purpose of which is to attract men and feed babies. In this way, a woman's breasts do not even belong to her. When men openly gawk at a woman without a bra, when relatives grope at her as a pubescent girl, when we are exposed to an endless stream of hyper-sexualized images of women with their cleavage out, a message is sent loud and clear: existing in a female body is unsafe.

I want to make it very clear that an elective mastectomy and the practices of breast ironing are very different, but there are commonalities in the attitudes behind both. Breast ironing is done to pubescent girls in order to "prevent" her being sexually assaulted or harassed by men, sometimes including male relatives. When I hear stories of girls in the West starving themselves and binding to hide their chests, I can't help but see similarities. When I was binding and restricting calories as a 15 year old, I would have said I was doing it so that I could pass as a man. But I would have been lying to you. I was lying to myself. I didn't hate my breasts because I was "born in the wrong body." I hated my breasts because they were used to justify my sexualization. From my perspective they put me in danger.

We often hear that women's rights in the West have been secured, but you need only look at the war on women's bodies to see that that is a fantasy. When young girls constantly receive the messaging that your curves and boobs WILL attract men and that you will be objectified for it, many will try to opt out.

Take Liv Hewson, for example.

She says herself that her anorexia was a manifestation of "gender dysphoria," but the question remains - where did this dysphoria come from? Why would anorexia develop as an outlet for it? What makes more sense: a young woman was born hating her body and her breasts because she has a gendered, non-female soul, or that same woman hates her body because she has been conditioned as such by a patriarchal society, the same society that encourages extreme self harm and body modification through a multi-billion dollar cosmetic industry?

Gender dysphoria in young women needs to be demystified. It's not special, it's not unique. It is NOT evidence that she needs invasive surgery or steroids to feel comfortable in her body. It is evidence that she is in pain. In order to address the rising rate of transition in young women, we must first acknowledge the conditions that nurture this form of self-hatred.

Transition IS a feminist issue. It is just as relevant in Western feminism as tackling the beauty industry, female sexualization, and violence perpetrated against women through porn. All of these issues are deeply interconnected. When we approach dysphoric women with compassion and encourage them to perceive their bodies as a part of themselves that deserves to remain intact and whole, rather than as their enemy, we take a necessary step towards female liberation.

[backnancy]