Anorexia: An Outsider’s Perspective
11. Jul, 2010 
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Here I interview 4 people about the impact their loved one’s eating disorder has on their lives. Please visit my recovery group: groups.myspace.com
Verytime I watch this, I cry. I want to help those people who are suffering. I wish I could meet them and tell them that they ARE beautiful. They’ve always BEEN beautiful.
This video made my eyes fill with tears. How often have I hurt someone I know with my ED and didn’t know it? When I would get angry at my ex-BF for tickling me because he was “pinching my fat,” I saw the hurt on his face but I ignored it. I was too wrapped up in my own warped body image. My mother sat with me one night when I purged so badly I couldn’t stand and she put me (her then-16-year-old daughter) in the bathtub and washed me gently and I was too sick to care how I was hurting her.
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Im heart goes out to everyone going thru this.its very hard to see someone u love or care about go thru that.all we can do is be there to support them thru the hard times.
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i know some girls who want to get thinner
because some girls called her ugly and told her she was to fat. The cosmetics and the people around persons who like claim something is ugly , when no one can call someone or somehting ugly everyone has his own taste or else the world would be boring.
iwish girls could be happy with thereselfs
im 26…ive been this way since I was 10 or 11…. There are no treatment facilities near me and then I have no money to get treatment and no real family however I want treatment because I know I m hurtuing people. You should know to that how you all feel is how we feel!!!
I’m watching my little sister go through exactly the same thing, she’s 15 and im 19 and it kills to see her doing this.
This made me cry. Like, what does my mom think, my dad, my brother, my best friend. What would my boyfriend say or if I had kids, or a husband. It makes me so sad that I’m ruining my future and I can’t change it.
beautifullyrndm: Thank you
They don’t know how wrong they are.. People care.. I promise you. We care.
I feel the same way, no one in my life ever expresses concern for me. I sometimes think they wouldn’t even notice if I did die. The most I ever get is….you need to eat something!
Telling people that they are causing everyone else pain never helps. It makes them feel worse and become worse. They are aware of it.
This video made me cry so hard. I want to hug those people. I feel with all of them. I have to see how my little sister becomes thinner and thinner everday day. She always says she’s alright. And I always see the bones through her clothes. I’m scared that she’ll totally destroy herself. But she doesn’t see that. She always says she’s okay….
Thank you for this video. After watching it I didn’t feel so alone anymore.
this made me cry..
i wish i could believe the people that know about me felt this way..
Thats how suicide is. People think they’re ending pain, but they’re only handing it off to other people and multiplying it.
this was so sad
I cried. hah.
This is an amazing video, and I agree.
You truly are a hero.
GREAT VIDEO!
Read Explaining colours to a blind man. Not only will it enlighten many as to what living with a mental illness is like, it also gives comfort to those sufferers who think there is no hope and that they are alone. It is very informative, sometimes shocking but also very funny in parts. All in all, a good read and highly recommended.
i feel for all of these ppl. If my family/friends made a video for me or told me what they truly thought, I’d do anything I could to change.
I feel just like the guy with his anorexic girlfriend.
i have faved this. im 33, and after 14years have only recently been truthful to myself that i have an eating disorder, and taken the first step of admitting to my gp i have an ED. i faved this, because as horrid as it is, i need to see the little girl cry. i have children, and i need to see that to help me change for my children.:”(
You and your videos are what keeps me grounded and give me strength to continue my recovery. If I ever feel anorexia creeping around in my brain, your videos snap me right out of it. Especially this one. You are a hero.
I run a forum for people recovering/suffering from an eating disorder. The site is pro-recovery. If you would like the link, feel free to message me
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This was Really amazing!