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post Jul 23 2006, 01:08 AM
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I was in chat when someone posted a link to some girl's Xanga. I clicked it expecting to find some interesting material. Instead what I found was both disturbing and (in my opinion) psychotic. It appeared to be quite cult-like.

I don't know how much history this has, but I just recently stumbled upon a HUGE number of "Ana girls", or females that are "Pro-Anorexia Nervosa". In their blogs they seem to be glorifying a very serious and dangerous eating disorder.

Has anyone else seen anything like this before? It makes me feel really naive to think that I am just now finding out about it. And to think that there are support groups for people that glamourize being anorexic...

For more information I've provided links to two sources that I used to find out more about it.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-ana

Please note that any opinions stated in this topic are not meant to offend anyone. They are STRICTLY personal opinions.
 

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islandgirl4eva   I'm a new Ana   Jul 23 2006, 01:08 AM
tic tac.   Eh, never seen anything about that. As much as I...   Jul 23 2006, 01:11 AM
autodidact.   Being a member of a support forum [read: not ...   Jul 23 2006, 01:46 AM
Kathleen   QUOTE(autodidact. @ Jul 23 2006, 2:46 AM)...   Jul 23 2006, 02:04 AM
WINTERBERRYxxx   Even I, a full blown anoretic, finds this hugely d...   Jul 23 2006, 09:25 AM
suddenly she   winterberryxxx... it's anorexic, not anoretic....   Jul 29 2006, 03:31 PM
autodidact.   QUOTE(suddenly she @ Jul 29 2006, 1:31 PM...   Jul 29 2006, 04:02 PM
WINTERBERRYxxx   QUOTE(suddenly she @ Jul 29 2006, 3:31 PM...   Jul 30 2006, 02:17 PM
ichigofan   Um the websites starting poping up around 2000-200...   Jul 26 2006, 12:59 AM
tainted_angel   I remember somehow finding out about those xanga b...   Jul 26 2006, 01:07 AM
n00b   i always see these sites. They always subscribe to...   Jul 26 2006, 01:25 AM
yummy_delight   I've seen one it made me want to throw up. N...   Jul 26 2006, 02:32 AM
bballchick1   QUOTEi always see these sites. They always subscri...   Jul 26 2006, 10:23 AM
Freaky Krazer   People who support anorexia are stupid and makes M...   Jul 26 2006, 10:25 AM
This Confession   yea I found it a long time ago. My friend was in o...   Jul 26 2006, 10:40 AM
airam   i know. it's really sad   Jul 26 2006, 01:38 PM
stephinika   Yeah I stumbled upon some of those before in the p...   Jul 26 2006, 01:54 PM
Quarantine.   thats not the only group supporting for that kind ...   Jul 26 2006, 02:05 PM
Kathleen   QUOTE(Quarantine. @ Jul 26 2006, 3:05 PM)...   Jul 26 2006, 04:17 PM
xbabyboo   Wow..thats sad..Theres a lot of groups that suppor...   Jul 26 2006, 02:45 PM
annabel_x   Yeah..I've seen xanga's like those before....   Jul 26 2006, 03:05 PM
xlilaznchickx   i've never seen xanga's like that..since i...   Jul 26 2006, 03:18 PM
Skyline Drive   Yeah it's pretty damn sad.. There is nothing...   Jul 26 2006, 03:21 PM
xCrys   I agree ^ ...Completely.   Jul 26 2006, 04:18 PM
nyctophiliac   they should just go kill themselves   Jul 29 2006, 04:55 PM
bonjour_x   ^ sure. yeh i saw one on livejournal a few months ...   Jul 29 2006, 05:58 PM
one_and_only   yea i saw this something about this on tv. website...   Jul 30 2006, 03:13 PM
Teenage Mutant Ninja Meg   i've seen this before... i have a friend, luke...   Aug 2 2006, 07:47 PM
BrokenDream   Wow. How disturbing.   Aug 5 2006, 08:32 AM
islandgirl4eva   It really IS disturbing. I don't knock people ...   Aug 6 2006, 02:45 PM
teeners__15   haha yea i ran into this "cult" a while ...   Aug 7 2006, 01:54 AM
Spiritual Winged Aura   support the ones who are recovering from ana/bulim...   Aug 7 2006, 02:10 AM
archana   I've came upon those blogs on featured content...   Aug 7 2006, 11:56 AM


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