I think someone needs to step up to teens on eating disorders.?

i agree. but i also agree that they are educatated they just think that they are invisible and once they start they cant help it. i think that it needs to be stopped though.
 
I think that all teenagers should be even more educated on things like eating disorders no matter what, but for many, many teens i'm sure that that wouldn't be enough.
Some, such as the obnoxious twelve-year-olds on here asking "how to be anorexic" should be taught especially, because they don't really WANT to be anorexic (they're not educated about the actual meaning behind that word.), they're just ignorant and either want to lose weight because they're self-conscious, or because they want to seem "cool".
BUT, I doubt that telling us older, more mature (:D) teenagers about all the terrible things that will happen to us if we develop an ED will really change our self-conscious ways and get us to eat more healthily. (we've all had "talks" with our parents so many times that we're probably immune to the words about "slow metabolisms" and "starvation mode" by now. All we really think about now is having that super-thin body that we've always desired.)
So, I do agree that we should be more educated for several different reasons, but I don't expect it to make that much of a difference.
 
yes! they don't understand it's not something you can just do as a quick fix or something which is what some people on here are obviously assuming as for the stupid questions on "tips to become ana or mia"
they're really hurtful to people with ED's,
they need to know that it's a disease, a dangerous one at that and not something to 'lose a few lbs for summer'. rahhh idiots.
grrrrr, rant over :) xo
 
well sometimes people can't help it. It's a mental disorder.

I remember watching the movies in Health Class and it still happened to me... And it's not like I wanted any of it. Eventhough I didn't really have bulimia or anorexia

but yeah I get what you mean when girls ask those questions on how to be anorexic.. makes me sick!
 
definately!
i almost went through a stage of developing an eating disorder,but at the end of the day the best way to loose weight is eat well and excercise...i dont think these kids know that after they get all skinny the first thing they put in their mouth is gona make them baloon up anyway! lol=)
 
Yes, I agree!
I've answered many questions such as, "How do I become Anorexic?" it's ignorant & horrible.
Eating disorders are awful things, and children should be educated on the dangers of them.
 
Ok I agree teens should be educated more about healthy eating but the thing you really have to realize, is that people are not developing eating disorders because they are not educated. Did the know the brian of an Anorexic person functions differently to that of a 'normal' person. It is about hormones that are produced in the brain.

For example when most women eat chocolate it makes them happy, and they find it tastes better than a glass of a water. But for an anorexic person there is no difference in brain activity, you get no more pleasure from eating something fatty than from drinking a glass of water. We get happy hormones produced when we say no, rather than yes.

It is really a very deep rooted thing to do with the way our brain is wired from the very beginning.

In fact a lot of teenage girls online who self diagnose themselves with anorexia are actually just on an extreme diet, they still get pleasure from eating.

Everyone need to be educated on the true cause of Anorexia.

Believe me every single day I wish I could eat, I wish I could be normal, I just wan tot eat like a normal person. But I cannot, something in my head just wont let me.
 
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