Health Risks and Mental Effects

[beautifullypossessed]

We all know that this forum has attracted a lot of attention and conflict from being here, and a lot of people don't like it being here. I am one of those people but I'm not going to argue about it or whatever because that's not why I'm posting this thread, in return please don't bash me for posting or try to change my mind, because I most definitely will not.

Like it or not, this forum is going to attract more 'pro-anas' to join this site, and whilst many of them will already have been told all the health risks that go along with anorexia or bulimia, some may be naive teenage girls just looking to lose a few pounds. For that reason, I think it would be best to have a list of health risks here, just so people that haven't been doing it for long know exactly what they're getting themselves into. Again, please don't tell me that this is unnecessary or that I shouldn't be posting in this section if I don't agree with it, because I think that everyone who looks on here has a right to know what damage they're doing to their body and their mind. So here we go...

Anorexia/Starvation

-You will constantly feel hungry, to the point of it hurting so much you feel like you're going to die
-You will feel faint and weak all the time
-You will probably start fainting at one point or another
-Your bones will be brittle and will break and fracture easily
-You will have major bowel problems
-Your stomach will constantly hurt because of the hunger and bowel issues
-You will have absolutely no energy
-You will start avoiding seeing friends and family for fear they'll notice how bad you look or how you're not eating
-Electrolyte imbalances
-You will constantly make excuses for why you can't go to events that involve food
-You will be able to think of little else other than food, calories, and how hungry you are
-It will never be enough, the number on the scale will never be good enough. The reflection in the mirror will always need to be just a bit thinner. No matter how thin you get, you won't be able to stop.
-You will suffer from constant headaches
-You will just hurt. All the time. Your body will constantly ache
-You will often be out of breath from the effort your body has to make just to move
-You won't be able to concentrate easily, and your academic or business performance will decrease drastically
-You won't be able to eat one single thing without panicking about the calories/fat/carbs in it
-You will be paranoid about people judging you based on how much you eat in front of them
-You will look sickly, ill and gaunt all the time
-You will be able to feel your heart beating irregularly and missing beats, and let me tell you, that is scary
-You are at much greater risk of cardiac arrest, heart disease, stroke, and osteoporosis
-You have a high risk of infertility, and your periods will stop
-Your hair on your head will start to fall out, but in return you will get a coat of thin hair covering pretty much everywhere else
-Insomnia. You won't be able to sleep well at all, which puts even more strain on your incredibly weak body

Bulimia/Purging

-Severe headache, all the time
-Scarred, bruised purging hand
-If you purge with another object, risk of dropping it down your throat and dying
-Electrolyte imbalances, which can cause cardiac arrest
-You will constantly be moody an irritable
-You will be unable to think of pretty much anything else other than binging and purging
-Stomach and mouth ulcers
-Your teeth will constantly hurt
-You will have acid erosion and the enamel on your teeth will be shot
-You will constantly have crippling stomach pains
-You will start to throw up blood and other chunks of things that I'm pretty sure are meant to stay inside your body
-You will constantly blow off friends and family so that you can stay at home and binge and purge
-You are likely to block the toilet or shower if you purge into them (Like I have just done...)
-You are very likely to spoil some of your clothes and items because you missed the thing you were purging into
-Broken blood vessels in your face and eyes. Very noticable.
-You will have literally no money to spare because you spend it all on binge food
-You will be forced to constantly lie to the people that love and care about you
-Sore, bleeding throat all the time, and your voice will be affected
-Swollen, puffy face and cheeks
-You will look sickly and ill all of the time
-You are more likely to gain weight than you are to lose it
-You will be unable to even think about or look at food without wanting to binge and purge
-You, your clothes, and the room you purged in will smell like puke for hours after you did it
-You will be paranoid about people judging you based on how much you eat in front of them
-It will be a chore to talk to people, even the people you love the most because it is hard to think about anything unrelated to eating disorders
-Your period will be messed up, that is, if you even have one at all
-You can end up infertile
-You will end up very anti-social and not want to go out or talk to anyone
-Your room and other space will be very messy
-You won't have any energy
-You won't be able to be bothered about the things that you once loved and enjoyed
-You will unvoluntarily vomit, sometimes without warning
-You will get heartburn and acid reflux a hell of a lot

That is all I can think of at the moment, but that is by no means all of them. So anybody that clicked on this, thinking that eating disorders are an easy way to lose weight, I hoped that this made you think. Eating disorders are diseases and do nothing but destroy lives. Please think again before wanting to go down this road, because there comes a point when you can't turn back.

[Matthewww]

This needs a sticky.

[The Bright Side]

This needs a sticky.

Agreed and Done.

[Matthewww]

Agreed and Done.

Thanks DS

[beautifullypossessed]

Thank you for stickying

[The Bright Side]

No problem...thanks for creating the post and thanks for suggesting. I thought it was very well written and laid out. And it's important.

[elzie]

Amen......

[Ice Queen]

This is great. Thanks for writing it. The next time someone comes on here asking for tips (like that moron yesterday who actually got mad at us for not sharing our "successes" so she could be thin and beautiful too...Jesus Christ) we should give them the link to this thread and say "here's the official list of Ana/Mia tips & tricks! <3"