Notebook: Eating Disorders

[georgiadawgsfan69]

What do you call an anorexic with with a yeast infection?

A quarter pounder with cheese.

[Rinsuki]

@mggerz Honestly, my mother tells me that I'm fat and only worthy when I'm skinny. As if my life would improve or people will love me more even though I am normal. I told her what's what. I told her someone out there will love me for who I am. Your father is using you for his own problems. You would sound like a smartass, but ask him why he is not proud of his creation considering he made half of you.

[271207]

My parents should spend 1 minute and 6 seconds of their life watching this video, just so they will finally hear it from someone else. I've had anorexia when I was younger, I have since recovered greatly but I feel now a relapse is threatening. My father constantly makes comments regarding the way I look, my weight in particular and both my mother and father talk nearly endlessly about dieting, working out anc ounting calories. I don't want to tell them, but I know they are mostly to blame...

[xYouthAttackx]

i would sooo do katie couric

[candyshop1001]

1:01 she looks so happy:P

[stokkand1]

listen at 0:30 - 0:40

[AerikCJE]

--that makes you happy and BE HAPPY!!

[AerikCJE]

I don't wanna sound like an ass (but I'll probably end up sounding like one anyway) but I actually wonder how hard it is to just be happy with who YOU are and fuck what anyone else thinks. Who cares what other people think, nothing you do will matter anyway, so who cares? Why worry over things like how you look? If your life is essentially meaningless, than the only point in living is your happiness, than either do what makes you happy or, in this case I guess, redefine for yourself what it is--

[AngeliaClaire]

Katie shut the fuck up dumb ass. You are the one showing the nation your bunghole!

[AngeliaClaire]

Katie shut the fuck up dumb ass.

[onlylyrics52]

At the end, her face was like, "I don't care about this.... I'm just doing this because I have to..."

[Sarahrosebello]

My grandmother is always bugging me about how I should lose weight.

Now I am.

A lot of weight.

Maybe she'll be happy when I'm in the hospital.

[iheartsjonas]

My dad always comments on me when I binge and then when I barely/don't eat, he comments too. When I don't eat or eat VERY LITTLE, he acts all conerned and is all, "You don't eat enough to keep a bird alive." And then, when I binge, he comments and is all "Are you eating AGAIN?" "You don't need that much food." "Why are you eating so much?" UGH! It's like I can never be what he wants. Ever.

[naughtynati]

@iheartsjonas - that is f'd up and and i'm really sorry you're having to deal with that. my dad always comments on what i eat too, but not at that level. is there any way you can sit him down and talk to him about how it makes you feel, and that's it not helping? if that's not possible, maybe you can ask a therapist or family member or trusted family friend to help mediate this conversation? good luck. sending love.

[iheartsjonas]

@naughtynati thanks. idk if it'll work. even if it LOOKS like i've eaten a lot, and i've just licked food or something or hid it reallyw ell just to get the smell, he thinks i binge and comments then too. it's very frustrating. :( i hate it that i can never be enough for anybody. Anyway, thanks <3

[naughtynati]

@iheartsjonas did you ever seek out help (family therapy, etc)? i hope all is well with you.

[iheartsjonas]

@naughtynati I'm doing kind of better now. I, um, started purging a couple months ago. And I'd started Prozac around that time. I've been cutting and suicidal thoughts and stuff a lot lately. But then, my dad took me to a psychiatric hospital. Four days, three nights. IT helped. But i'm still not all the way better. But I ahven't purged or cut in over a week. But oh my god the urges are awful.

[naughtynati]

@iheartsjonas: I highly recommend going to a support group and continuing counseling. I don't want to scare you, but ED has the highest rate of death of any mental illness; 20%. It's really important to continue getting help so you can become healthy. And it sounds like there's a lot going on under the surface. Let me know if you need any referral sources. Best of luck to you!!

[iheartsjonas]

@naughtynati I'm getting help but it's so scary.

[iheartsjonas]

And I mean I'm going to go to therapy and all but opening up to people over and over again is getting old. I hope I can stay with this one. I get tired of telling the whole story.

[ILovesucksI]

-stuffs my mouth full with some food- nomnomnom -looks at the screen, sees anorexic lady- SHIT SHE'S MY AGE -stuffs more-

[candikking]

I dont understand stomething...if anorexia is a real 'disease'...where are all the asian and black people who have this disease? i have never seen a story of any women fo colour etc with anorexia/boulemia...maybe there are, but i dont know of any. Its quite curious.

[stahlbaum11]

@candikking I'm asian and bulimic, trust me, it's not just a caucasian thing. You're right you don't hear of many black/asian stories =S

[debbiechickie5]

Hugely obese peopel do not have an eating disorder, but skinnies DO? Dont eat if you are screwed up..DRINK or DO DRUGS..then u can at least get medical help. But if you choose to self medicate with FOOD, you are a lazy fat perosn. Chhose to self medicate by NOT eating or drinking alcholhol or doing drugs, and POOF! You have a Treatmetn Program! NONSENSE

[Jakewejo]

it all starts in the family!

[Invisablexoxoxo]

i do it because i am afraid my bf wont like me if im not thin. hes thin too. im not too fat im not too skinny im....eh. But i also do i cuz my grandmom always ALWAYS made me and my brother weigh ourselves and bug us to lose weight and i was even that big, maybe like..... 101lbs. But ughhhhh its hard ya kno?

[imapanda4709]

tell your parents to shut the fuck up. or go talk to an aunt or uncle.

its really unhealthy.

my parents did that too and i would put on weight than loose it really fast and that is not good for your heart.

seriously.

tell your parents.

[twilght2032]

my both parents keep telling me I'm fat... and to lose weight..... it hurts me but they don't understand that I'm trying so hard, starving myself, but everytime I eat something (anything) there they are telling me I'm fat...

[gothcat12]

same here its so annoying my mum wonders why i cant stand her i only eat dinner and ive lost 17.5 pounds in 3 weeks and she still aint happy

[twilght2032]

yeah I know... wtf is wrong with them

[imsohappy]

My mum tells me the same thing.

:[

It sucks but it encourages my ED.

[Meeechelley]

DONT STARVE YOURSELF. Just eat smart, exercise, be happy and don't give a damn what your parents say about your weight.

[jrowe6]

fathers dont comment? when i have kids if i have girls and they start getting fat you better believe i will be doing something about it. my little girl wont be ruining her body. she will get some god damn help before shit gets out of control. we cannot just start to accept this shit. they are sick. they need help. they dont need to be babied and tolerated.

[rocknrollfuelthesoul]

@jrowe6 I think every young girl needs to be babied and tolerated, especially if they are feeling terrible about themselves. Punishing them for struggling doesn't make a whole lot of sense..

[jrowe6]

its not punishment to help them fix what is making them feel bad about themselves........if you are sad because you are fat and out of shape it wont fix the problem for your mom and friends to talk you into thinking its ok. what would help is if everyone around you supported you going on a proper diet and getting a little excersize into your life.

[rocknrollfuelthesoul]

"fucking women" ... dude, just because you wrote "not all of you are like this" doesn't make it okay to say, and follow with even more generalized gender based discriminatory bashing.

Weight isn't the root issue of eating disorders, just a superficial external aspect. It's really easy to say things like "just eat healthy and exercise." That's solid advice for people who are dieting, but not in the treatment of a psychiatric illness.

[rocknrollfuelthesoul]

I've been leading a healthy lifestyle for a couple of years now, but in my individual experience with the illness I can say that it wasn't about weight at the end of the day. It was emotionally much easier for me to focus on my body than it was to process the grief of losing a parent.

[rocknrollfuelthesoul]

I'm not overweight at all, what happened in my life was that my dad passed away when I was 13, and I really didn't know how to deal with losing him. It was too emotionally painful for me to deal with, as it would be for any 13 year old kid, so anorexia was a coping mechanism for me, much like how some people drink or do drugs. The best way that I can explain it is like this; The more attention I put onto my weight and body, the less attention I had to pay to the intense sadness from his death

[rocknrollfuelthesoul]

Furthermore, by the time I was 12 I was already 5'10 and had developed early. Needless to say I was often mistaken for a 19-20 year old woman, Men would come up to me and say the most blatantly sexual and vile things. When I lost weight (I went from being slim to being skeletal) the comments stopped.  That didn't really have much to do with the development of my eating disorder, but finding a way to get dirty old men to leave me alone made it even more appealing to me to continue starving.

[rocknrollfuelthesoul]

You are very obviously uneducated on eating disorders, my moms awesome, she supported me through my struggles and helped me get through the other side. Yours dropped you during infancy. Several times.

There's no point trying to reason with a woman-hating, uneducated, inexperienced, troll. Have a good life and try not to screw your kids up too much.

[NicoleBeaulieuu]

oh that's what you do, you stupid fucking waste of human. you talk about your daughters, and how you never want them to see themselves in a bad light and hurt themselves. did you look back and read what you said to this girl? she's someone's daughter. what you you think if some asshole said this to your girls? also, you can't just go and ignore when people tell you you're ugly or fat, you have no idea what it's like to be a teenage girl. you're just and ignorant fucking man who needs to shut up.

[chris100318]

i totally agree with the two of you (ambera15,divinityhumanity)

[ambera15]

What the industrialized world needs is a long , permanent famine . I´m sure all types of eating disorders would vanish instantly .If food were no longer that easily available , people would finally appreciate and stop abusing it. The Western world is spoilt, that´s all .

[divinityhumanity]

If your too fat they complain...if your too skinny they complain..WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!!!

I like how the media love's to act concerned with the whole anorexic thing. When they created the monster. News flash all they want you to do is buy diet pills and beauty products. Say what you really mean " obey conform consume"

[CrimsonVibrato]

@divinityhumanity The media did not "create" anorexia. That is ridiculous. People develop eating disorders for a variety of reasons, but things like T.V., magazines, etc...I guarantee are not the leading cause. People with eating disorders need a sense of control in their lives, it's not necessarily about the actual weight. There is so much more to it. People need to stop blaming the media and look at the whole picture if they want to understand what truly leads to an ED.

[withlove312]

@divinityhumanity Agreed. What do they want us to do? We (women) are always too fat or too skinny. These magazines will have women on the cover who say "Embrace you curves!" and "I love my body." Then they'll have the same woman on next week saying "How I lost 5lbs in one Week!"

[iheartsjonas]

@divinityhumanity thank you thank you thank you

[loveshakespeare]

@divinityhumanity

Yep, they have created it, I totally agree, but now, I'm kind of thankful that they are paying attention to it and its not being forgotten or swept under the rug, you know?

[tamithomas]

omg its scary how right she is.. my eating disorders started by my dad always commenting to start working out to not become like him,or would tap my stomach and call me fat. parents do have an effect.. but so much more other things conflict with the progress of the mental illness as well..

[livingondaedge]

thats so sad im sorry that u had to go through that

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Just neglect really.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Parents today are more or less worthless. They do absolutely nothing.

[singergurl31497]

i agree

mine do nothing, and they never will

what has happened to this world???

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

My parents have never helped me with my homever in my entire life. And they also have never known what subjects I did in school even though I got straight A's.

[ikilledemilyx]

The same! but Its not just homework, my parents dont help me with anything, even a small thing. Parents are supposed to be there for you, but mine dont even talk to me.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Right, exactly the same here. Mine don't even talk to me either. They also don't help me with anything. When I turned 20 my mom told my dad that he should talk to me (because he had never done it before ever). He could talk to me for less than 3 weeks and then he went back to work and watching television.

[ikilledemilyx]

Whats even the point with them ?

My mom done the same. But when she had to talk to me, it was pure hatred!

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

All my parents did when I was in highschool was stuff their fat disgusting bloated stomachs.

[ThGeorgGustavBillTom]

@ ikilledemilyx

my parents do the same thing. when i ask tham to help me with my homework and i don't get it the go angry... so i know how you feel when tiy parrents are like this....

[ikilledemilyx]

Agree completley.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

All my parents did was go to work and watch television by themselves. I never watched television with them for one week ever. They also never helped me with my homework in my entire life or even knew what subjects I was doing in school.

[chica476]

what happened to your smartass comments?

[orendabest88]

my family picks on my older sister saying she to fat in she should go to a skiiny hosyipal for 2 months ..i hope she dont turn ana

[wigglesmalibu]

Anorexia is NOT a disease.

At best its a psychological disorder where a girl is so obsessed with being beautiful she willingly starves herself because she is too lazy (or stupid) to exercise the weight off.

[NandoLust]

Much much more women than men are affected but men can also become Anorexic.

[bronzedtone]

yeah this is a possibility to, but that all gets to the mental illness after..

[whatdeyecallher]

you think anorexics don't exercise? you think it's just dirls who get the DISEASE? you think it's all about being fat? than you really don't know a lot about anorexia

[MrCoinoperatedboy]

Anorexia is a disease.

Men can also be anorexic.

Part of being anorexic is that they often over exercise.

If you knew what it felt like to have a naturally larger body type than you wouldn't be so self-rightous.

Your the kind of person that makes it harder for people with mental diseases like being anorexic or cutting or any other kind of SI to get any help.

[napkin27]

porfavor no lea esto

el 13 de octubre de 1991

un niño llamado nick se tiro de un puente devido a problemas familiares

si ya leiste esto deves copiar y pegar

en otros 5 videos mas o si no

nick vendra por toda tu familia

haslo o moriran porfavor hasme caso

yo lo lei y lo hise

[christinapagels]

It's true what oceangust said. Unless a woman is called a plus sized model, they are all super thin. Seeing that does make girls want to lose wieght and be that way. I used to struggle with anorexia and bulimia and I practically idolized those models. Now struggling with binge eating disorder, I can see they are unhealthy but there are days that I would rather be a skeleton than what I am now. When you have an ED, your mind is distorted, you believe that is beautiful. And it's really not.

[taniaaust1]

i agree with fallcrysilk... my eatting disorder (anorexia) is about control. It makes me feel good as it's something in my life which feels in control and not in chaos. I like my body how it is now..or i like it to be thinner...what matters to me is that i can control it so i dont get any bigger and will only get smaller.

[shareneshields]

I am happy that this is out into the open. To someone who is over weight myself to someone who is fighting to gain. I totally understand. I have a sister who is over 600 lbs and I so understand the struggles. Compassion, love and prayer. Thank you for posting this.

[mcrmyfav]

hmmm and how many people are overweight compared to those who suffer from anorexia?

[katieodonnell1994]

who the fuck would wanna be a walking corpse though?

[oceangust]

maybe you should take a look at a fashion magazine. have you ever seen a fat model?

[ajkl27]

yeah, but you don't have ot be underweight to avoid being fat

[katieodonnell1994]

well its like a said though aint it ...

HU THA FK WUD WANNA BE A WALKING CORPSE?..haha.

[BusinessButterfly]

my Mom since I was like 10 told me I needed to be thin I am not thin but I always tried and I have ended doing more wrong then good

yupp I hope this stops the competition between Mother and daugther is the start of many things in ones life

[fallcrysilk]

There's one word as to why people starve themselves;CONTROL!!!!

[wazzita]

Could be control, but it could also be repercussions of an episode of abuse, anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorders.

[mydisease7]

ever girl in my family grows up in the same situation. they end up fat, miserable with thier fat but are too lazy to get rid of it. ALL OF THEM is that going to happen to me fat and unhappy. anorexia was the only way i could control my weight and at that time i thought if i got skinny maybe i would attract someone who would actually like me but it was a lie. now im healthy and still single but i wont go back to anorexia its too depressing and frightning.

[freakishweirdo]

Eating disorders also start from having very little control in your life. if your parents control almost every thing you do the only thing you have left is to control what and how you eat, then the eating disorder start to control you.

[lildixie88]

totally true... thats how mine started.

[gypsyfirestorm]

It's actually Self Injury Awareness Day 3/1.

[IshtarMnezeth]

I'm glad she made a statement to parents because my friends mom calls her fat all the time and she is very not.

[hucky22]

She's a fat ass lol

[TiNa2927]

@IshtarMnezeth yeah my mum calls mefat and everything trust me it makes u want to die!