@DoriyaPosts I don't know if it was edited for sake of making a story line, but it really bothers me how Shelley doesn't get to defend herself and how the staff play "telephone" regarding the veggie burger, maybe they did have it out for Shelley
The whole point of the therapists doing things like telling them they need to eat and having intense therapy is them trying to shock these people out of their mindset and show them that they can live happily. This stuff is scary and these patients need some way to realize it.
That part when they invited Shelly in for a massive consultation with all her doctors made me feel intimidated. I'd feel really awful if I had to do that.
The body outlining has got to be one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I am so grateful to Weight Watchers for helping me to lose weight slowly, steadily, and healthily and keep me at a healthy weight for life.
when i watch programmes like this it just makes me more determined to not be discovered so i dont have to go into somewhere like that...it terrifies me how cold they appear....
Keep in mind that anorexic people are used to lying and manipulating and keeping secrets and therefore they can't be trusted. However I think the nutitionist is too negative and quick to assume the worse. Also, I wonder why the nurse and other staff who are overweight chose to work in this field. The epitomize what anorexics are most afraid of.
I feel like if the staff coddled these women, the treatment would not be as effective. They have to have some authority over the patients and they have to be brutally honest about everything that they are seeing.
@Cinnamon3669 I AGREE WITH YOU 100%!!! I feel bad for the girl with the tube in her stomach. Getting surgery must have been really hard in her physically and emotionally. I am in her shoes.
This institution is horrible! Can anyone be human to these woman.... The employees are mean! This is a disease and the doctors and nurses are just going to a job everyday and not helping these girls.
It really is ironic that an obese person is telling someone with anorexia how to eat. They both have eating issues. They really are jugemental!! Makes me mad. If you work in a place like that you have to have *some* god damn concept of empathy.
I HATE the nutritionist...shes an effin bitch and really judgemental, it makes me sick! Id tell her to shut the fuck up if I were there..she is supposed to be helping people, not secretly bashing them with the other doctors.
@soultrading I was being kind of sarcastic. I've had one before. I was refuring to how she can 'purge' out of it. I didn't have the in stomach type though- had it down through the nose.. Blergh.
I fucking hate the nutritionist...she's such a judgmental bitch...can't believe she's in a profession where she's supposed to be helping people. The therapist I really like.
like its not as if you become manipulative as in trying to hurt people, its just, when your ED is threatened, you weight loss is threatened, you fight back with everything you have, and if that means lying, faking happiness, hiding, whatever, you do it.
again, its not you being a bad person, its your ED making you into something you aren't and warping your ideas and morals.
i think the nutritionist is fantastic. i remember hating the first person who diagnosed me with anorexia, because they were onto EVERYTHING and they weren't going to be convinced otherwise...
and that's what I needed more than anything. these girls need someone there to plug all the holes because any gaps in the treatment, we WILL take advantage of. anyone who has had an ED will agree, you become very sneaky and very manipulative. it doesnt make you a bad person or your fault, but you do change
@machatte911 Then I guess you don't understand what having an eating disorder means. These women would hardly develop an eating disorder if they lived in 3rd world countries. They do not choose to become anorexic/bulimic and they realise that it doesn't make sense - but it is an illness!
@machatte911 don't come ssay something like that to here. obviosly you don't undestand how serious anorexia is. and that its not all about the food. don't u understand that its not a choice that they don't wanna eat??!! THEY ARE SERIOSLY ILL! anorexia is an illness as much cancer is..
Why is that lady who weighs her at the start overweight?... If not obese. Aren't the doctors and nurses supposed to be normal weight? Consistent overeating is a different kind of eating disorder all on its own.
@angelchik54 It's to teach the women in their that there is more then one way to be and being overweight doesn't you aren't pretty and that you can't do anything. Lot's of hospitals dealing with bulimic and anorexia patients have normal weight to overweight nurses to prove that it's not necessarily bad to gain weight.
How could that father make Shelly get a tube in her stomach?? She endured "the worst pain I've ever felt" just so her dad didn't have to be embarassed at the country club? Disgusting.
@mismonty46 I wonder if he had any idea how she would abuse the feeding tube? if that would have made any difference in that decision of having Shelly get the feeding tube in her stomach.
I really think that an obese person should NOT tell an anorexic how and what to eat. Its my thought the patients will think that they will end up looking like them if they do listen.
@Death929 I think you have a good point. I have been concerned about my weight since hitting 50 and yet the nurses are all heavy so the doctors and nurses just ignore my concerns, even though I tell them how unhappy it makes me.
@Death929 That's right, family members should send them to the poor parts of Africa where even if they want to eat, they won't be able to, eliminating temptations and "undesirable" eating habits.
God that lady with blonde hair is annoying.. her facial expressions and the tone of her voice just.... UGH. She seems really... judgy-ish. You know what I mean?
I lost 40+ pounds. I have an ed. Don't have sympathy or pity for us. It's not as bad as people make it seem. I'm happy. I mean, some of the time. I'm okay with dying, I can't really have a career (failed pretty much everything this year) or family ( I can't love) I was planning to join the army or commit suicide after highschool. People like me can't have a future.
this is literally the 10th time ive watched this... ive had an eating disorder for 4 years and its a living hell, ive been in and out of hospitals, had IVs and NG tubes and infact im in a resedential psych unit now - on weekend leave currently ,have to go back tomrorow
@Luailo1 I first saw it on more 4 around Oct / Nov 2006 I remember because I had just started Uni and my mum had recently passed away and I found it incredibly triggering as I was in the midst of developing bulimia already and for some strange reason this spurred me on
Integirety and honesty goes both ways, so WHY ON EARTH can't the staff ask themselves about their own issues and motives? OH, I forgot... the goverment vs the staff is superier victories, right?
@bonesrbeautyful I'm the idiot but you can spell "you're" correctly, I come from South Africa, we don't walk around with tubes in our stomachs and barely anyone is ana so I'm not familiar with all this
Honestly,this is the one place where overweight and underweight people shouldn't be employed,and I've seen quite a lot of the first ones.They're trying to teach those girls that health is the most important thing,and when they hear this coming from the mouth of someone who actually should lose 30 or even 50 pounds,how r they supposed to believe it?they probably think 'yeah,and if i start to eat i'll look like you'.big mistake, i don't know who employed them,but they weren't thinking
@calamityjane1975 i doubt most women developing eating disorders have been raped or sexually abused... Many, but definitely not the majority. Obviously it often is the reason for those who have. It's different for everybody.
But I'm a little confused why you would point that out to me, because personally I don't find my previous comment disagreeing with the fact that women are scared to look feminine... Just that ed patients tend to compete to feed their illness. Perhaps you misunderstood :)
@Beam261 do some research. theres a MASSIVE correlation. trauma, threat to the safety of what should be your own body, fear, panic, helplessness, being controlled by another, following guilt, shame, impurity, out of body-ness, escapism, denial, punishment, night terrors, all that good stuff. you starve=you become unappealing to predators. worked for me. lost period&curves, the same jerks who used to chase me down the street now tell me to eat something and that i look like a skeleton. i win. ; /
The way health politics mostly is practised in the western world, makes me wonder if the international tribunal should step in and beat the crap out of respective national health authorities!
Ali is so playing up her whole reason for being there! "I don't want recovery. I went into the airforce to lose weight! I want to stay thin!" She says everything with a tone that screams "Look at me! I'm sick. I'm twisted. Look at me!"
@FrigidArtic that's what eating disorders are about, too. Desperately wanting to be the sickest and being willing to do anything, eventually even die, to get there. It's such a devious illness that changes personalities.
at 4:25 when the guy Dr. is talking about how Shelly was mad that she was being taken off of all her anti-depressants and that she was had been feeling really depressed lately and was asking for something to help... he talks about it as if she has drug seeking behavior!! Some people NEED anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medication. Dr's are soo hesitant to prescribe any kind of drug. it's pathetic. the poor girl needed it.
i know it's probably for the best, but being taken off of kolonopin in treatment most be so bad. she has to withdrawal from it mentally and physically, and is in such a high stress situation for rebound anxiety.
im confused why the chief NUTRITIONIST is giving her two cents on Shellys honesty etc. thats not her place, at all. leave the psychoanalysis to the professionals sweetie, you give them their menus and shut up. i severely get annoyed with people who think they are an authority on EVERYTHING. no youre not her therapist, no youre not a psychologist, no youre not a human lie detector, youre the nutritionist...the only info ill trust from you is how much protein i need in my diet.
@Ellenjo27 sorry but u are wrong and can't agree with you. Just because some of the staff is fat doesn't mean they aren't going to get better. What is the difference they look at themselves at the mirror and they see fat when in reality they are skinny. So we don't even know what they think of the staff and I'm sure that is the least of their worries. Lol
I'm trying not to sound rude towards the nutritionist, but shouldn't nutritionists be healthy themselves as that is what they are teaching? She is very overweight. And having overweight staff in an eating disorder clinic.. not a good idea if you ask me. It isn't going to help the patients at all. Seeing that will make the patients scared that's what they are gonna look like if they eat and it would be trigguring them to not eat. They should have nice healthy staff. Anyone else agree?
@EllenJ0207 i feel like if they hired skinny people the girls would try to compete with them. Seeing fat people everywhere has to make them feel a little happy at least.
How did Shelly suck food out of her stomach?! Did she stick the syringe in the tube? How was the syringe powerful enough to actually suck the food out of her stomach and up the tube? Wow that's kind of disgustingly cool- don't have a go at me it's just kind of fascinating, I know it's wrong!
@ BeckEhster when i was 11 i had anorexia. I didnt chose that path, i didnt know what anorexia was. I stll struggle and guess what!? Noo i didnt chose anorexia to be part of my life
@BeckEhster actually no. eating disorders arent something that you love..you do it cuz u feel you need to or you hate the way you look. your comment was extremely unneeded. dont critisize what you dont understand.
@michellerbn i understand perfectly. I never said anyone enjoyed anorexia ether. My point, it was their decision to refuse food, is that not right? Someone else told them not to eat? I'm only against the nurses here.
@BeckEhster It is not a path you choose, when I was nine I had no idea what anorexia was. It wasn't a path I chose, it was an illness that took over my life. I almost died because of anorexia. I still fight it everyday of my life because I don't want to end up like that again. If someone hadn't stepped in and tried to help me I wouldn't be here.
@BeckEhster You can't understand unless you go through it yourself. You don't do these things because you want to, you do them because you have to. I'm recovered from 7 yrs of EDs. Yes I was aware of the consequences, but you also become aware of the disease. Eventually you just wanna stop because you simply can't live normally, but it's one of the hardest things to let go & you WILL relapse a lot on the road to recovery. I agree w/ you to an extent, since recovery is totally up to the person.
My wife suffered both an ED and addiction and she has said that recovering from the ED was way harder than recovering from the drugs. Eating is ingrained in our society. So much of it is done as a form of socialization. It was easier to put the drugs that she wasn't expected to do aside than it was to start engaging in a normal activity in a normal way.
@lesterclaypool1 Wow, I'm really glad your wife is recovered now. She's a really strong woman. An ED is basically an addiction in itself, recovering from that AS WELL as a drug addiction takes so much courage, strength and strong will. :)
@BeckEhster That's a good question. I was about 13 when I started. You don't decide to have an ed. It kind of simply happens. There's so much that one cant put in words unless you experience it for yourself, which GOD forbid you ever do. It's not like I was 13 and woke up thinking "Hey, I wanna be anorexic! And then I wanna be bulimic!" Lots of things led up to them. You want control, you think you have control, yet control is the one thing you actually don't have at all.
@BeckEhster Sometimes you can't even tell who has an eating disorder. Bulimics can sometimes look healthy, a lot of eating disordered girls can hide the problem. We live in a society that revolves around thin bodies, beautiful faces and we all try to fit into it because that is the definition of beauty, power, acceptance, confidence and etc etc. It's sad.
There is fat nurses which is messed when I was in treatment there was a fat nurse she triggered me so much because I was afraid I would look like her.
really jody? i think according to you every patient is sneaky and not trust worthy....ugh i hate her so much i wish she could lose her license for being such a horrible nutritionist
i think that this place clearly does not work. they're all being forced. you can recover unless you really want to. its the key to all mental disorders/addictions.
That dietician is a fucking joke, look at the state of her! Fat bitch. Most of the staff there are huge! And Kandi! Don't get me started on her. Absolute cow, really mean to everyone. Hate isn't a strong enough word. I <3 Polly and Shelly.
Have these people who are evaluating the patients actually been through an eating disorder? Because you can study psychology all you want, you still won't understand what a mental illness is until you have been through it. No wonder no one's getting better.
i really hate the nutritionist. she seems to be someone who sees these girls as bad people. they have more sides than their manipulative side; they're not bad people. and in another clip she's very nasty and says to someone's face "i think you're this, i think you're that." but she says this in such a way as if she knows for a fact. getting these people better is what's important, not getting to prideful over someone pulling the wool over your eyes. they're not bad. jeez.
@89cosmo the nutritionist is just being frank...this girl has a damn tube in her stomach n shes sucking shit out with it...u cant really sugar coat something like that
i shouldnt but I wish so badly i had a tube in my stomach to purge out of...i'm sick of destroying my teeth and giving myself chest pains. Esp. because Im still just normal weight..fml
Hahahah a ohmygod shely after her surgery is fucking hilarious. "does this shit last all day?"
olimac909 4 days ago
the woman at 5.06 is a bitch..she's ill and she's acting like she's a horrible person 'sneaaaky'
alicedee100 1 week ago 2
That blonde bitch looks sooo judgmental.
randomosity156 2 weeks ago
@randomosity156 That's funny because your comment made YOU appear judgmental. But you aren't, are you? ;)
YashaClone 1 week ago
no matter how many times i watch this as soon as Alisa writes 'HELP ME' i just loose it :(
SienMay 2 weeks ago 2
What shit did they put her on at 8:25 lol?
lolasorocks10 2 weeks ago
@lolasorocks10 Ham
scottylans 4 days ago
"I don't trust her as far as I can throw her"
Me: You can probably throw her pretty far!
DoriyaPosts 3 weeks ago 7
@DoriyaPosts I don't know if it was edited for sake of making a story line, but it really bothers me how Shelley doesn't get to defend herself and how the staff play "telephone" regarding the veggie burger, maybe they did have it out for Shelley
umassigkap 2 days ago
The whole point of the therapists doing things like telling them they need to eat and having intense therapy is them trying to shock these people out of their mindset and show them that they can live happily. This stuff is scary and these patients need some way to realize it.
mememe12395 1 month ago
That part when they invited Shelly in for a massive consultation with all her doctors made me feel intimidated. I'd feel really awful if I had to do that.
MyCheeringCharlie 1 month ago 7
shelly = lady gaga!
Katharine777 1 month ago 7
@Katharine777 That's exactly what I thought!
mememe12395 1 month ago
The body outlining has got to be one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I am so grateful to Weight Watchers for helping me to lose weight slowly, steadily, and healthily and keep me at a healthy weight for life.
18dragonsky 1 month ago
Alisa seems like the type of person I'd be scared to talk to. She's intimidating and open and would make me uncomfortable. haha.
ktar007 1 month ago
It makes no sense that people who obviously cannot eat healthily are trying to teach these girls how to eat healthily themselves.
ktar007 1 month ago 5
I had the same nurse that Shelly had during preop, she was so nice to me.
rockstar0678 1 month ago
The staff are reverse thinspo
midgetteXD 1 month ago 6
when i watch programmes like this it just makes me more determined to not be discovered so i dont have to go into somewhere like that...it terrifies me how cold they appear....
laurozmia 1 month ago
The nutritionist is a bitch
ceciliaaaxiful 1 month ago 19
Keep in mind that anorexic people are used to lying and manipulating and keeping secrets and therefore they can't be trusted. However I think the nutitionist is too negative and quick to assume the worse. Also, I wonder why the nurse and other staff who are overweight chose to work in this field. The epitomize what anorexics are most afraid of.
Miss65boo 1 month ago 7
I feel like if the staff coddled these women, the treatment would not be as effective. They have to have some authority over the patients and they have to be brutally honest about everything that they are seeing.
Also, the way Alisa speaks is so over dramatic.
jennpenn5 2 months ago
ok lady your a nutritionist stick to what you know and leave the rest to the professionals. power control wanting ass bitch.
mizcarney 2 months ago
Ahhh someone please get her a new marker! >.< lol I hate squeaky chalk and markers
xXxXInspireMeXxXx 2 months ago 2
@xXxXInspireMeXxXx I know, that part kills me every time!!! The dry ass Sharpie sticking to the paper...
soultrading 2 months ago
@Cinnamon3669 I AGREE WITH YOU 100%!!! I feel bad for the girl with the tube in her stomach. Getting surgery must have been really hard in her physically and emotionally. I am in her shoes.
TheKillerInMyHead 2 months ago
This institution is horrible! Can anyone be human to these woman.... The employees are mean! This is a disease and the doctors and nurses are just going to a job everyday and not helping these girls.
Cinnamon3669 2 months ago
Alisa looks like Natalie Portman.
LilasRose1973 2 months ago 4
It really is ironic that an obese person is telling someone with anorexia how to eat. They both have eating issues. They really are jugemental!! Makes me mad. If you work in a place like that you have to have *some* god damn concept of empathy.
cigaretteskinny21 2 months ago 2
why do all the therapists and nurses have this cold, arrogant tone? these people needed help, not judgement.
candybubbles161 2 months ago 8
that nurse, was so nice and cute <3
Blaaarghism 2 months ago
I HATE the nutritionist...shes an effin bitch and really judgemental, it makes me sick! Id tell her to shut the fuck up if I were there..she is supposed to be helping people, not secretly bashing them with the other doctors.
chrontastic2 3 months ago 4
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Heamartin 3 months ago
i want a stomach tube now.
ZendayaXx0 3 months ago
@ZendayaXx0 Please tell me you're kidding. No one should WANT a PEG tube.
soultrading 2 months ago
@soultrading I was being kind of sarcastic. I've had one before. I was refuring to how she can 'purge' out of it. I didn't have the in stomach type though- had it down through the nose.. Blergh.
ZendayaXx0 2 months ago
Alisa is such a pretty girl and i feel bad for her
amb817 3 months ago 5
I fucking hate the nutritionist...she's such a judgmental bitch...can't believe she's in a profession where she's supposed to be helping people. The therapist I really like.
Catertink 3 months ago 6
like its not as if you become manipulative as in trying to hurt people, its just, when your ED is threatened, you weight loss is threatened, you fight back with everything you have, and if that means lying, faking happiness, hiding, whatever, you do it.
again, its not you being a bad person, its your ED making you into something you aren't and warping your ideas and morals.
don't get mad when someone calls you out on this.
comeclarityy 3 months ago 3
i think the nutritionist is fantastic. i remember hating the first person who diagnosed me with anorexia, because they were onto EVERYTHING and they weren't going to be convinced otherwise...
and that's what I needed more than anything. these girls need someone there to plug all the holes because any gaps in the treatment, we WILL take advantage of. anyone who has had an ED will agree, you become very sneaky and very manipulative. it doesnt make you a bad person or your fault, but you do change
comeclarityy 3 months ago
That nutritionist is a bitch. I could do a way better job than her.
starsoverthere 4 months ago
Shelly is so funny
justemoikmie 4 months ago 4
I don't understand putting yourself through all this shit.
shatteringglass100 4 months ago
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Crying about having to eat? Are you f*cking serious?
How I wish these women had been born in third world countries.
machatte911 4 months ago
@machatte911 Then I guess you don't understand what having an eating disorder means. These women would hardly develop an eating disorder if they lived in 3rd world countries. They do not choose to become anorexic/bulimic and they realise that it doesn't make sense - but it is an illness!
TheMsPerfectionist 4 months ago 2
@machatte911 seriously you watched this thing all the way through why???? I beginning to think you just want attention and are anorexic yourself
agetlostgirl 4 months ago
@machatte911 don't come ssay something like that to here. obviosly you don't undestand how serious anorexia is. and that its not all about the food. don't u understand that its not a choice that they don't wanna eat??!! THEY ARE SERIOSLY ILL! anorexia is an illness as much cancer is..
sasys8n 6 days ago 3
shelly after surgery! haha :)
ilonapopp 4 months ago
good therapist
ilonapopp 4 months ago
Those tubes hurt! I had a one through my nose, it's so fucking painful to get it in and out.
Yapiej 4 months ago
That nutritionist is a bitch. She is not supportive at all.
Gitsie007 4 months ago
I like Alisa the most. I also like Shelly.
RIP Polly. :(
Gitsie007 4 months ago
@Gitsie007 She died?!
Aurorified 4 months ago
@Aurorified Yeah I read a few years ago she died.
bruisedstarr 4 months ago
she was so funny after her surgery!
carlycat101 5 months ago 4
I really hate some of the therapists in the program.
LavaLoveNoise 5 months ago 102
@LavaLoveNoise Why, because they're honest? Oh yes, heaven forbid they be honest with someone who has a history of being deceitful.
MyBarbaricYAWP22 1 month ago
@LavaLoveNoise I think Adam is pretty cool, based on what we see of him, not to impressed with Polly's though
umassigkap 2 days ago
shellys stomach is so perfect! i would kill myself 10 times over to look like her..
ClythiaMysticka 5 months ago
Why is that lady who weighs her at the start overweight?... If not obese. Aren't the doctors and nurses supposed to be normal weight? Consistent overeating is a different kind of eating disorder all on its own.
angelchik54 5 months ago
@angelchik54 It's to teach the women in their that there is more then one way to be and being overweight doesn't you aren't pretty and that you can't do anything. Lot's of hospitals dealing with bulimic and anorexia patients have normal weight to overweight nurses to prove that it's not necessarily bad to gain weight.
TheStarling001 5 months ago
How could that father make Shelly get a tube in her stomach?? She endured "the worst pain I've ever felt" just so her dad didn't have to be embarassed at the country club? Disgusting.
mismonty46 6 months ago 7
@mismonty46 I wonder if he had any idea how she would abuse the feeding tube? if that would have made any difference in that decision of having Shelly get the feeding tube in her stomach.
starrdancinchick 5 months ago
They shouldnt show this too kids in the 6th grade thats how I started with my ed
obeseanorexic1 6 months ago
The doctor from the Jersey Shore, the one who doesn't trust Shelly, is such a bitch.
ShaBow000 6 months ago 4
alisa is kind of annoying
hermeeown 6 months ago
treatment is retarded. honestly there is no hope in traditional treatment.
bonesrbeautyful 6 months ago
I really think that an obese person should NOT tell an anorexic how and what to eat. Its my thought the patients will think that they will end up looking like them if they do listen.
Death929 6 months ago 152
@Death929 The patients will think that anyway..
DoriyaPosts 3 months ago
@Death929 yes but that would be weight discrimination, and the wrong message.
BiologyAndNintendo 1 month ago
@Death929 That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
MyBarbaricYAWP22 1 month ago
@Death929 I think you have a good point. I have been concerned about my weight since hitting 50 and yet the nurses are all heavy so the doctors and nurses just ignore my concerns, even though I tell them how unhappy it makes me.
lisaannejane2 1 month ago
@Death929 I know - and how much would you feel like saying "Well your more overweight, than l am underweight - so get stuffed!!"
68deluxe 4 weeks ago
@Death929 That's right, family members should send them to the poor parts of Africa where even if they want to eat, they won't be able to, eliminating temptations and "undesirable" eating habits.
YashaClone 1 week ago
God that lady with blonde hair is annoying.. her facial expressions and the tone of her voice just.... UGH. She seems really... judgy-ish. You know what I mean?
animekristy1 6 months ago
ive not relapsed, but im really scared that i am. but the scary thing is that the thought of going into hospital.. comforts me
ninasocoollike 6 months ago
I lost 40+ pounds. I have an ed. Don't have sympathy or pity for us. It's not as bad as people make it seem. I'm happy. I mean, some of the time. I'm okay with dying, I can't really have a career (failed pretty much everything this year) or family ( I can't love) I was planning to join the army or commit suicide after highschool. People like me can't have a future.
AnimeCrazedd 6 months ago
@AnimeCrazedd I hope you get help and get healthy.
stephs2tall 6 months ago
@AnimeCrazedd
It's not that bad, true, but having a healthy body and life is much better.
Just sayin'.
lesterclaypool1 6 months ago
@elisabethiana: hope you get better!
teamoflores18 6 months ago
this is literally the 10th time ive watched this... ive had an eating disorder for 4 years and its a living hell, ive been in and out of hospitals, had IVs and NG tubes and infact im in a resedential psych unit now - on weekend leave currently ,have to go back tomrorow
Elisabethianna 6 months ago
There need to be boundaries in a nurse/patient relationship. These women are talented manipulators and liars- the nurses know this.
Hamstergirl71 6 months ago
if i had an eating disorder and went there it would help to have a fat nurse because then i would be scared i would turn out like them
FashionHappens07 6 months ago
When did this first air?
Luailo1 7 months ago
@Luailo1 I first saw it on more 4 around Oct / Nov 2006 I remember because I had just started Uni and my mum had recently passed away and I found it incredibly triggering as I was in the midst of developing bulimia already and for some strange reason this spurred me on
EmptyInside1509 6 months ago
To make issues of lying, integerety and honesty is like saying to an individual with torets syndrome to behave...
stokkand1 7 months ago
@frozen2nothing
EXACTLY! MY nutritionist is freakin fat! I hate having her tell me what the fuck to eat!
vadasabbatelli 7 months ago 5
At 6:50-> the victories "legitimiced" forcement is outrages and disturbing...
stokkand1 7 months ago
Treatment teams look so fucking Evil sometimes.
RuheSanft123 7 months ago
Integirety and honesty goes both ways, so WHY ON EARTH can't the staff ask themselves about their own issues and motives? OH, I forgot... the goverment vs the staff is superier victories, right?
stokkand1 7 months ago
why does shelly have a tube in her stomach?
catlover5342 7 months ago
@catlover5342 It's a feeding tube.
cheekypants321 7 months ago
@cheekypants321 why doesnt she just eat through her mouth...?
catlover5342 6 months ago
@catlover5342 your an idiot.
bonesrbeautyful 6 months ago
@bonesrbeautyful I'm the idiot but you can spell "you're" correctly, I come from South Africa, we don't walk around with tubes in our stomachs and barely anyone is ana so I'm not familiar with all this
catlover5342 5 months ago
@catlover5342 She's anorexic, she refuses to eat. the tube wasn't her decision, her doctors put it in.
cheekypants321 6 months ago
Honestly,this is the one place where overweight and underweight people shouldn't be employed,and I've seen quite a lot of the first ones.They're trying to teach those girls that health is the most important thing,and when they hear this coming from the mouth of someone who actually should lose 30 or even 50 pounds,how r they supposed to believe it?they probably think 'yeah,and if i start to eat i'll look like you'.big mistake, i don't know who employed them,but they weren't thinking
SkylarPro 8 months ago
@calamityjane1975 i doubt most women developing eating disorders have been raped or sexually abused... Many, but definitely not the majority. Obviously it often is the reason for those who have. It's different for everybody.
But I'm a little confused why you would point that out to me, because personally I don't find my previous comment disagreeing with the fact that women are scared to look feminine... Just that ed patients tend to compete to feed their illness. Perhaps you misunderstood :)
Beam261 8 months ago
@Beam261 do some research. theres a MASSIVE correlation. trauma, threat to the safety of what should be your own body, fear, panic, helplessness, being controlled by another, following guilt, shame, impurity, out of body-ness, escapism, denial, punishment, night terrors, all that good stuff. you starve=you become unappealing to predators. worked for me. lost period&curves, the same jerks who used to chase me down the street now tell me to eat something and that i look like a skeleton. i win. ; /
chirpz1999 8 months ago
The surgery part is grossing me out! :/
LoveMeHateMe97 8 months ago
we should all get TUBES to our STOMACHS !!!
WHY DID'NT GOD JUST PUT THEM THeRe TO BEGIN WITH !!!!
...what a prick.
novaflo339 8 months ago
Aww that was so sweet when the nurse looked at Shelly for a moment and said "you're such a beautiful girl." at 7:10
OzJenj88 8 months ago 3
that 'help me', it's so touching..
AntiSecret90 8 months ago 3
The way health politics mostly is practised in the western world, makes me wonder if the international tribunal should step in and beat the crap out of respective national health authorities!
stokkand1 8 months ago
Ali is so playing up her whole reason for being there! "I don't want recovery. I went into the airforce to lose weight! I want to stay thin!" She says everything with a tone that screams "Look at me! I'm sick. I'm twisted. Look at me!"
FrigidArtic 8 months ago
@FrigidArtic that's what eating disorders are about, too. Desperately wanting to be the sickest and being willing to do anything, eventually even die, to get there. It's such a devious illness that changes personalities.
Beam261 8 months ago in playlist Thin Documentary
at 4:25 when the guy Dr. is talking about how Shelly was mad that she was being taken off of all her anti-depressants and that she was had been feeling really depressed lately and was asking for something to help... he talks about it as if she has drug seeking behavior!! Some people NEED anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medication. Dr's are soo hesitant to prescribe any kind of drug. it's pathetic. the poor girl needed it.
FrigidArtic 8 months ago
"i can't trust her as far as i throw her." you can probably throw her pretty damn far.
pallorsea 8 months ago 47
@pallorsea That was my first though - she is pretty light!
kbsydney 6 months ago
@pallorsea LOL I have to say that was funny, your comment.
starrdancinchick 5 months ago
i know it's probably for the best, but being taken off of kolonopin in treatment most be so bad. she has to withdrawal from it mentally and physically, and is in such a high stress situation for rebound anxiety.
pallorsea 8 months ago
@pallorsea yeah...and I feel she is getting very little suport from the team with that :(
Beam261 8 months ago in playlist Thin Documentary
A timeframe 0:55->:Forced treatment... WHY?
stokkand1 8 months ago
im confused why the chief NUTRITIONIST is giving her two cents on Shellys honesty etc. thats not her place, at all. leave the psychoanalysis to the professionals sweetie, you give them their menus and shut up. i severely get annoyed with people who think they are an authority on EVERYTHING. no youre not her therapist, no youre not a psychologist, no youre not a human lie detector, youre the nutritionist...the only info ill trust from you is how much protein i need in my diet.
missXmarie0990 8 months ago 4
@Ellenjo27 sorry but u are wrong and can't agree with you. Just because some of the staff is fat doesn't mean they aren't going to get better. What is the difference they look at themselves at the mirror and they see fat when in reality they are skinny. So we don't even know what they think of the staff and I'm sure that is the least of their worries. Lol
janet07100 9 months ago
I'm trying not to sound rude towards the nutritionist, but shouldn't nutritionists be healthy themselves as that is what they are teaching? She is very overweight. And having overweight staff in an eating disorder clinic.. not a good idea if you ask me. It isn't going to help the patients at all. Seeing that will make the patients scared that's what they are gonna look like if they eat and it would be trigguring them to not eat. They should have nice healthy staff. Anyone else agree?
EllenJ0207 9 months ago
@EllenJ0207 i feel like if they hired skinny people the girls would try to compete with them. Seeing fat people everywhere has to make them feel a little happy at least.
DefyingNoodles 8 months ago
kolonopin withdrawal is evil
555danzig 9 months ago
How is the overweight nurse not in inpatient. just as unhealthy.
555danzig 9 months ago 2
The staff NEED to stop treating the patients like children. It's only going to exacerbate their problems, wtf.
shespeakssoftly 9 months ago
I really hate that nutritionist.
BRIANNAistalksick 9 months ago 4
The girl at the end looks like Nataly Portman. Even her voice (like in Black Swan)
yasminekhayat 9 months ago
How did Shelly suck food out of her stomach?! Did she stick the syringe in the tube? How was the syringe powerful enough to actually suck the food out of her stomach and up the tube? Wow that's kind of disgustingly cool- don't have a go at me it's just kind of fascinating, I know it's wrong!
TheOnlyShauna 9 months ago
@ TessaBella5 i agree 100% with you. We never chise to have an ED:(
karlisch32 9 months ago
@ BeckEhster when i was 11 i had anorexia. I didnt chose that path, i didnt know what anorexia was. I stll struggle and guess what!? Noo i didnt chose anorexia to be part of my life
karlisch32 9 months ago
I hate that nutritionist
Francium5 9 months ago
Oh my god, Dr. Gersman looks so young here...
wickedchic15 9 months ago
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BeckEhster 9 months ago
@BeckEhster actually no. eating disorders arent something that you love..you do it cuz u feel you need to or you hate the way you look. your comment was extremely unneeded. dont critisize what you dont understand.
michellerbn 9 months ago
@michellerbn i understand perfectly. I never said anyone enjoyed anorexia ether. My point, it was their decision to refuse food, is that not right? Someone else told them not to eat? I'm only against the nurses here.
BeckEhster 9 months ago
@BeckEhster It is not a path you choose, when I was nine I had no idea what anorexia was. It wasn't a path I chose, it was an illness that took over my life. I almost died because of anorexia. I still fight it everyday of my life because I don't want to end up like that again. If someone hadn't stepped in and tried to help me I wouldn't be here.
TessaBella5 9 months ago
@BeckEhster You can't understand unless you go through it yourself. You don't do these things because you want to, you do them because you have to. I'm recovered from 7 yrs of EDs. Yes I was aware of the consequences, but you also become aware of the disease. Eventually you just wanna stop because you simply can't live normally, but it's one of the hardest things to let go & you WILL relapse a lot on the road to recovery. I agree w/ you to an extent, since recovery is totally up to the person.
xsuexkilla 6 months ago
@xsuexkilla
My wife suffered both an ED and addiction and she has said that recovering from the ED was way harder than recovering from the drugs. Eating is ingrained in our society. So much of it is done as a form of socialization. It was easier to put the drugs that she wasn't expected to do aside than it was to start engaging in a normal activity in a normal way.
lesterclaypool1 6 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 Wow, I'm really glad your wife is recovered now. She's a really strong woman. An ED is basically an addiction in itself, recovering from that AS WELL as a drug addiction takes so much courage, strength and strong will. :)
xsuexkilla 6 months ago
@xsuexkilla
Moving 1000 miles away from her controlling parents was the best therapy for her. She doesn't have to BE anyone other than herself, now.
It's still work, everyday, and always will be but she is a strrong woman.
I'll b sure to pass on your kind regards to her :).
lesterclaypool1 6 months ago
@xsuexkilla so your saying you didn't decide to have an ed in the first place?
BeckEhster 6 months ago
@BeckEhster That's a good question. I was about 13 when I started. You don't decide to have an ed. It kind of simply happens. There's so much that one cant put in words unless you experience it for yourself, which GOD forbid you ever do. It's not like I was 13 and woke up thinking "Hey, I wanna be anorexic! And then I wanna be bulimic!" Lots of things led up to them. You want control, you think you have control, yet control is the one thing you actually don't have at all.
xsuexkilla 6 months ago
@xsuexkilla well then ALL the girls I know that have an ED decided to get skinnier simply by purposely starving themselves.
BeckEhster 6 months ago
@BeckEhster Sometimes you can't even tell who has an eating disorder. Bulimics can sometimes look healthy, a lot of eating disordered girls can hide the problem. We live in a society that revolves around thin bodies, beautiful faces and we all try to fit into it because that is the definition of beauty, power, acceptance, confidence and etc etc. It's sad.
xsuexkilla 6 months ago
@xsuexkilla I'm 131.4 pounds and 5'6.7 feet and I'm restricting/ binging/ binging and purging. FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS lol
lalamouse77 5 months ago
@xsuexkilla so true
BeckEhster 6 months ago
Ew the staff should be beautiful, healthy people. Like thickspiration.
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sonalibabi92 10 months ago
I bet if I drew that thing of myself I would draw myself skinner and find out I was way fatter then I thought and that would be devastating.
edpinkgurl 10 months ago 91
@edpinkgurl I have always felt that way too lol!
Lucailey 7 months ago
There is fat nurses which is messed when I was in treatment there was a fat nurse she triggered me so much because I was afraid I would look like her.
edpinkgurl 10 months ago
@edpinkgurl exactly what I was thinking. Looking at her now, makes me sick..
EllEiEllE 10 months ago
really jody? i think according to you every patient is sneaky and not trust worthy....ugh i hate her so much i wish she could lose her license for being such a horrible nutritionist
nasrinv 10 months ago
I would absolutely not feel save or comfortable with these nurses around.. God.
jesuispuck 10 months ago
i think that this place clearly does not work. they're all being forced. you can recover unless you really want to. its the key to all mental disorders/addictions.
lindsayhotmess 10 months ago
@lindsayhotmess To be fair though, these girls checked themselves in, they haven't been sectioned.
livvyxo 10 months ago
@livvyxo I think brittany was. she's only 15
burntcoffeebeans 10 months ago
@burntcoffeebeans I think everyone came into that place voluntarily, but I mean I agree Brittany's family probably made the decision for her.
livvyxo 10 months ago
That dietician is a fucking joke, look at the state of her! Fat bitch. Most of the staff there are huge! And Kandi! Don't get me started on her. Absolute cow, really mean to everyone. Hate isn't a strong enough word. I <3 Polly and Shelly.
gettingsmallergirl 11 months ago
they really ought to make these facilities more pleasant to be in
rainofthewinter 11 months ago 3
Have these people who are evaluating the patients actually been through an eating disorder? Because you can study psychology all you want, you still won't understand what a mental illness is until you have been through it. No wonder no one's getting better.
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simplyana123 11 months ago
wtf they do for her :o
angelaxpl 11 months ago
women are fucking crazy
GuruPePe33 11 months ago
i really hate the nutritionist. she seems to be someone who sees these girls as bad people. they have more sides than their manipulative side; they're not bad people. and in another clip she's very nasty and says to someone's face "i think you're this, i think you're that." but she says this in such a way as if she knows for a fact. getting these people better is what's important, not getting to prideful over someone pulling the wool over your eyes. they're not bad. jeez.
89cosmo 11 months ago
@89cosmo the nutritionist is just being frank...this girl has a damn tube in her stomach n shes sucking shit out with it...u cant really sugar coat something like that
GuruPePe33 11 months ago 5
@GuruPePe33
i stand by my statement, but really i meant to comment on part 6 when the woman says nastily, "i don't trust you." so this is the wrong section.
89cosmo 11 months ago
@89cosmo i agree she was a little nasty there
GuruPePe33 11 months ago
Watery eyed at the "help me". My life story for the past seven years.
MustBGangsta 11 months ago 2
The part where she wrote "HELP ME" in big letters on her outline made me cry.
RoseRepulsive 11 months ago
that blonde lady should be in a weight loss clinic
jyggyhobyt 11 months ago
i shouldnt but I wish so badly i had a tube in my stomach to purge out of...i'm sick of destroying my teeth and giving myself chest pains. Esp. because Im still just normal weight..fml
atherwitch 11 months ago
i love the part where she pulls her eyes open :) bahaha
mes179 1 year ago 5