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  • Had they done that, Polly might have still been alive.

  • I wish people would see that they are all beautiful, no matter what they look like. We all have beautiful bodies, mirrors lie. Everyone looks different, and that's the best part-nobody looks the same as anyone else, and we are supposed to embrace that and see our own true beauty, not starve ourselves and harm our bodies. I wish Polly hadn't been kicked out, at least they could have put her in another treatment center or in another part of the building, away from the people she was effecting.

  • This is one of the saddest things I have ever seen. It has really made me realize that we need to value our bodies and love ourselves. God created us in his own image, and these poor women have lost control of themselves and gotten so skinny that they can barely function. It is so sad that people can't embrace themselves for who they are and for what they look like. Everyone is beautiful, even if they can't see it when they look in the mirror everyday or weigh themselves on a scale.

  • Search Freelea on youtube. She use to have bulimia, and now she eats as much as she likes and she's still super skinny. She's on a low fat/high carb raw vegan diet.(Emphasis on tuns of fruit). That's what these girls should be eating at the clinic.

  • Shelly was my favourite, she seemed like she was really getting back on track. I'm so sad that she lost 17 pounds once she was released.

  • @Gemmmmaaaaaaa She has fully recovered since then, though. :)

  • @shrinerspark YAY :)

  • Every time I watch this I hope that the next time I do I won't be able to empathise but every time... It's been three years now and I'm still the same. Useless.

  • looks to me these bullshitters didn't help these girls out at all!!!

  • @TheLittlePlagueRat you always will have the same thoughts. I'm struggling through an ed currently, and have been since my sister passed in '07, probably longer than I can that, and when I've tried to get better, I'll be okay for a few days and can eat fairly normal, but then it comes back. With each relapse it's gotten worse for me. My momma was anorexic all throughout her teen years, and up until I think she had my sister, in '90, and she still always talks about it, and talks about herself a

  • I wonder if you really can ever recover from an ED, or will it just haunt you for the rest of your life. I really hope not. I want to believe there is still hope, but sometimes I doubt it.

  • @TheLittlePlagueRat Both Alisa and Shelly have fully recovered now.

  • One of my closest friends has an eating disorder. I am terrified for her.

  • There was not ONE success story in this documentary...this is just sad. It makes me feel like there's no hope for people like them, and I know there is. I wish we could've at least seen one person beat the illness...

  • Wow, after watching this whole doc, I just want so much to be able to help.

    I hope to go into Mental Health and specialize in Eating Disorders, problem being, I am from Tasmania and we don't even have a support place here. One day I hope to change that.

  • This is just an example of how royally fucked the US health care system is, free health care shouldn't even be a question, its should be a basic human right. These girls need, and should be entitled to every bit of help the can get. Their lives shouldn't be put at risk, or cut short because their fucked up government doesn't have free health care. It's inhumane and wrong on so many levels.

  • for christ's sake, the US has got to get their shit together with their health care policy. especially in regards to mental disorders which can require a life time of treatment.

  • damn insurance

  • it doesn't end.. it never will..... the struggle never ends and that is the fact that people with ed know and they are tired of fighting with themself. I am tired thats why i end fighting and let ed take control

  • I'm so glad that I live in Denmark. Yes we pay a lot in taxes but we have free health care. Therefore you're not denied treatment because you can't pay.. I too have an eating disorder..

  • Jesus, so basically it helped no one!?

  • Man this treatment center SUCKS!

  • rip polly

  • And Brittany now? :(

  • @DaKotaArielCristally She's alive, she has mostly overcome her eating disorder but now struggles with heroin :(

  • @thelexietaylor Oh..:( so sad..I hope she don't give up!

  • FUCK HOLLYWOOD AND THE MEDIA...

  • @chadberry75 Oh my god. It has NOTHING. To do. with. the. media. It's a mental disorder. It's not about being skinny. Oh my god.

  • @thelexietaylor It has everything to do with the media. It's not like back in the day cavemen were anorexic and bulimic.

  • @Aurorified Oh my god. Haha oh my god. You are honestly so ignorant I can't even respond to this. How about listen to the people who actually SUFFER from eating disorders.

  • @thelexietaylor No, at first it's because they want to lose weight, you can't debate that, and THEN it turns into something more that they can't control.

  • @Aurorified I've had anorexia for 6 years, and met hundreds of other people suffering with it, I'm sure I understand it more than you do. It's not always about losing weight. That's a symptom. It's about control, need and self hate. You don't understand it at all clearly.

  • @thelexietaylor I know but it's not like one day you wake up and you're anorexic, it's something you're eased into.

  • @Aurorified Yes, some were... lol.

  • @shatteringglass100 Yeah I'm sure.......

  • @Aurorified How are you this ignorant, especially in this day and age. Yeah, media is partially to blame, but it isn't purely media's fault. I know for me, it had little to no effect on why I developed an ED. Mine stemmed from people constantly critiquing me on my body weight, becoming severely depressed, and the need to control something in my life. You can't simply blame the media, or pretend to know when you clearly havent been through any of this. I consciously made the decision about my ED.

  • @dcmusicofthenight i totally agree with you. it was never the media or the online sites that even made me think about throwing up it was what i saw in the mirror and what i felt around me. I have purging/bulimia ednos and i just found everything out and developed habits on my own. The only main outside influence that egged me on was kids calling me fat.

  • You can't just blame the therapists that the girls did not fully recover immediately. Eating disorders are very dangerous things and are VERY hard to get over. Especially with the girls being secretive and trying hard to NOT take the help and continue to lose weight. The nurses/psychologists did their best and I think that it actually worked, it's just a shame that most girls had to leave before they were ready.

  • Sometimes there is no such thing as better...I was severely underweight in High School and didn't even top 90 lbs for any length of time until after my second child. After my fiance passed away I ballooned up almost 190 on a 5'1" frame. Now I have been dropping and am about 155 but my life revolves around food...it really never ends...

  • With all due respect - none of these girls got better?

  • @TheAFROXY Shelly and Alisa are both doing well now--Shelly actually has a blog, she married her boyfriend and they're happy. Brittany's status is unknown.

  • They still do electric shock therapy?

  • @XxLonelyRainnxX

    electric shock therapy is actually often very effective in treating depression, but it is only used as a sort of 'last-ditch attempt'. and it is not the same as in 'the old days'- a lot of steps are taken to prevent a lot of discomfort, they give the patient a lot of muscle relaxers to prevent them from jerking around, etc. and even a brief period of physical discomfort is worth it if it can help with crippling depression that hasn't responded to other treatment.

  • Brittany is so pretty.

  • @sushimitten Eating disorders are one of the most deadly and most difficult mental illnesses to treat. You look at the statistics of addicts coming out of rehab, you will see the same trend. It is not as much the treatment centers fault. As it is the eating disorder.

  • @happydonkey19 if you look up the movie, they tell you when this finished airing, she died shortly after. While here, Polly also attempted suicide but they cut that scene though some people put that deleted scene up

  • @Imyourcounciousness

    "huge staff chicks" "skinny asses" "lil gals (Most are fully grown women for fuck sake)" "Blond hair and big tits"

    Are you really that fucking ignorant? You are objectifying women's bodies and using them as a means to judge the individual on an eating disorder video?

    You realize that nurses are trained not to give in to patient's bullshit so that the patients get better. You realize that not all overweight/underweight people have an unhealthy body or relationship with food.

  • Shelly is still beautiful. I would date her. I see lots of guys with women this size. It's a very common occurrence.

  • Does anyone know what happened to Brittany afterwards? This film is really sad and moving.

  • R.I.P Polly Ann Williams, <3

  • What happened to Brittany?

  • Who said polly died?? here doesn't say so...

  • @happydonkey19 She died after the documentary was released.

  • I'm so happy for Alisa that she is healthy now!

  • There's hope in Jesus. Real talk. I just watched this. I know what it's like to be hopeless. I used to hate myself..and I had social anxiety too. I was on Xanax and Clonapin and I was also doing street drugs. I ended up in such a slump I became suicidal. I couldn't see any way out. I just wanted it to all go away. Life was just too hard. That was over a year ago. My life has made a complete 180. I'm happier and more fulfilled than I've ever been in my life.

  • I cant believe shelly underwent electric shock treatment. I mean did they see her state of mind already? She was zonked out every time I saw her...shock therapy probably did nothing but make her even more mentally unstable...

  • geez, this documentary is so depressing. nobody gets better ;(

  • Brittney looks like walking death. I relaly hope she gets better.

  • they all relapsed how sad :(

  • It never really goes away.... I cried watching this. I know how they feel.

  • I want to find an association where we can donate money for cases in which health insurance no longer covers their stay at these medical clinics. Could you imagine all that effort for nothing, simply because the insurance stops covering?? They go back into these disorders?? No. This isint right, and these doctors should be aware that their efforts are useless if they do not follow through, there could be cases which need more than a couple of months.

  • They didn't mention polly dying.

  • @miniyell Because she died in 2008.

  • I know Polly died, but I wonder what the other 3 haved done, have they recovered or not. thats what I hate about these docs, is you never know if the recovered, or died, or still struggle

  • @RebiTitanic How do you know Polly died?

  • @MargaretMisfit its on youtube and the internet

  • @coolturtle99 i also think i saw an article about it on the internet once

  • @MargaretMisfit dont reply to coolturtle99, that was my friends account

  • Well none them seemed to get help in the end. It's so sad :(

  • These poor girls. and rest in peace Polly <3

  • the most depressing ending to a documentary ever...

  • R.i.p polly:(( poor girls i wonder how they are doing now?

  • @karlisch32 did the disease kill her? :(

  • @UniteInPurple

    she overdosed on prescription medication. it's not known whether it was accidental or suicide

  • I feel really bad for Brittany. Especially since she's as old as me (or was) and has to deal with so much crap. I wish all them luck.

  • Shelly is very good looking. I would date her.

  • That clinic did absolutely nothing to help these girls.

  • Great documentary but now i got the impression that i will never cure

  • Watching this made me SO ANGRY at the fashion industry, and at schoolyard builies. Look at what it's done to Brittany—she gets picked on as a little girl for being chubby, and it's gonna be something she can never wash off. AND she has an anorexic mother on top of that. What hope is there for that poor girl? I hope the boys who bullied her all get herpes or run over by buses.

  • this is a terrible video. I mean how depressing can you get???

  • I wonder how they are doing now? I know polly died but I wonder how the other girls are doing.

  • i hate that the voice that whispers in our ear only plans for pain suffering and destruction!! Please listen to the still, small voice inside of you that only wants to breathe life into you. Jesus LOVES you just the way you are.

  • WHO MARRIES AN ANOREXIC? my cousin is anorexic and its quite obvious even if you aren't in the family. I attended her wedding 2 years ago. Society is at fault for these girls conditions.

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  • i cant beileve they wer discharged because der insurance ran out or they cud not afford it. that should change when ther is a life threatning ilness...the treatment centre does not care for der patients at all.i thought irelands health system was bad as thats where iam frm... but to be turned away on finiacal issues now thats just bad thats what shocked me the most. u can only predict whats goin to happen when they leave the treatment centre-they come to a bad end.

  • i cant beileve they wer discharged because der insurance ran out or they cud not afford it. that should change when ther is a life threatning ilness...the treatment centre does not care for der patients at all.i thought irelands health system was bad as thats where iam frm... but to be turned away on finiacal issues now thats just bad thats what shocked me the most. u can only predict whats goin to happen when they leave the treatment centre-they come to a bad end.

  • rofl, so most of them are back where they started

  • @bubblemuffinxp thats not funny :S

  • @bubblemuffinxp that's not funny. Heck eating disorder recovery is hard but possible I know some people who have recovered, but it's not funny because many people don't recover.

  • @edpinkgurl i think its funny. lolol they wasted their time and money

  • @bubblemuffinxp It's not funny. These people are sick and they need help this is a fault of the system, it's not funny at all.

  • @edpinkgurl Hahahaha

  • @bubblemuffinxp you're ridiculous, get a life... and why not a heart while you're at it? You do realize Polly, the only one who actually managed to straighten out her life, ended up killing herself!

  • @MLivingbyaprayer THATS GREAT!

  • Thankyou so much for this documentary. From watching this i now know what my girlfriend struggles with everyday.

  • i didnt even know they stiil did electric shock treatment..it does nothing...these women will most likely will not make it ... they are pretty much the same as drug addicts..the only diffrence is that addicts have the chance to go to jail before they die

  • @GuruPePe33 Ya they still do Electric shock treatment I know when I was in the psych hospital they did it on some of the patients I was with, though apparently it does help some people. Ya eating disorders are very similar to drug addiction, I think EDs are harder because with drugs you can avoid your drug all together but with food you have to eat.

  • @edpinkgurl yea drug addiction n ED are very similiar ... i wouldnt go as far to say that EDs are more severe but i think they are just as hard to beat......i cant believe that they still use shock treatment!!! it seems like such a primitive ways to treat some one........were u in a psych hospital for an ED???

  • @GuruPePe33 ok just from personal experience recovering from drug addiction has been easier then from the ED that's why I said that but I'm sure it's different for different people I'm only speaking from personal experience. I've been in psych hospital a few times, at first for depression and stuff and another time for Eating disorder, and another time I went in a program that is general but it had support for people recovering from drugs. That really helped me alot, 

  • @edpinkgurl I couldn't agree with you more.

  • so so so so sad. GOD has made each and everyone in a different way and we shouldnt try to change our appearence for others. instead we should be glad that we are all unique and different than everybody else.

  • If you want your life back and want to be healthy on the inside and out and gain weight healthily recovering feels like you are overcoming the disorder... but if you're still in the sick mindset, no matter how hard you WANT to get better... gaining weight will feel as though you are losing the battle.

  • I truly believe that you can't ever be completely cured from an ed. I've had EDNOS for 8 years now. I'm 22. Some days are fine but others are complete hell.

  • @FlyingFishie I think you can recover from an ED I know people who say that they are recovered from an ED. Read Jenni Shaefers book Goodbye ED , Hello Me, she talks about being recovered.

  • Very sad to watch this,and as a neutral person I see both sides of things.

    Do have to say though,that a couple of the staff in there are so clearly in it just for the money.However it is no different from other people in other jobs.But when it comes to people's physical and emotional well being is better to have staff that aren't in it just for the money.

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  • its so sad that polly died. Must be so much guilt on shelly's shoulders :(

  • @MissPonderosa why guilt on shelly??? i didnt watch the whole documentary x

  • @MissPonderosa Shelly and this other girl dobbed her in for some stuff, then the team decided that polly was a bad influence on everyone and evicted her from the retreat (Put two and two together and you have the reason she commited suicide; being discharged when she really needed help)

  • not one success story... puts treatment centers like renfrew in question.

  • So what was the benefit for these poor women and the money paid, hardly anything at all. Utterly disgraceful to deny medical care to sick people. Time for universal medical care in the US. No more of this Sarah Pailn bullshit.

  • It's places like these that make me wonder if an eating disorder, or any kind of mental disorder, can ever be fixed. It seems you either live a crap life with it or you kill yourself. And that's your only options.

  • No one got better from that place, one attempted suicide, one did commit suicide (Polly)

    Hmm, what the fuck does that show about Renfrew.

  • @MissHannahJanel it didnt say she commited suicide, where did you hear it from ?

  • @baileyHun1909 Google it. 

  • So basically this rehab place is INEFFECTIVE and pointless.

    The word hopeless springs to mind.

  • @sushimitten Nearly all people who suffer from anorexia relapse many times, it's a part of the process. Some may relapse numerous time, while others may never fully recover. It's not that these girls don't want to get better, it's that their mind simply wont let them. Mental disorders are far more powerful than we give them credit for. Eating disorders are something that stick with you for a life time. You may over come them physically but mentally you will never be the same.

  • Shelley is pretty cute. I would definitely date her. Even she got married so there are people out there that are accepting for someone.

  • Electricshock therapy is still commonly done everyday around the world. Personally, I don't like it and it scares me to think about it happening, but it does help people apparently.

  • Am I the only one who is appales by the fact that Shelley underwent ELECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY?!?!?! That's what people did a hundred years ago and definitely not something that should be done today!

  • what is the point of this clinic if people leave just as they entered? just a place for a few months that you can be healthy? renfrew is bullshit

  • Thank you for the uploader. Very, very much.

  • For fu@k sake people! just swap places with kids in Africa!

  • @DmitryUlyanov rude.

  • @DmitryUlyanov This is pretty rude, but an anorexic friend of mine did this and recovered. it was her last lease on life and she took it. She is pretty well recovered as a result.

  • this film scares me. it's almost like EDs are drug addictions..

  • @petrosoap they may as well be. Weight loss is actually quite addictive, it's how it managed to get me.

  • @petrosoap they are really similar to drug addictions, actually I think an ED is worse then a drug addiction, as I've dealt with both and the ED is what is still bothering me. Drugs you can just stop and avoid and not use with food you can't just stop eating, you have to eat to live so it's really is much harder to recover I think.

  • @petrosoap They are. An addiction anyway. Except ED sufferers have to face FOOD every DAY.

  • @petrosoap it's true... anorexia truly IS an addiction. People will suffer their whole life from it; just like any other addiction.

  • @petrosoap their addictions

  • @petrosoap in a way, they are. anything can become an addiction the minute your brain associates the action with its' pleasure center. it is very easy to relapse and very easy for it to become out of control again.

  • @petrosoap In all honesty, that's exactly what they are.

  • it just doesnt work i guess.

    on another note...doesnt alisa look like lea michele from glee?

  • @PINKPOLKADOTS97 are we talking about glee now?

  • Do u know what pisses me off the goverment give money for stupid things, they should be putting it in to this sort of thing then people can get better and not worriey when they are gonna get kicked out because there insurance doesn't cover it. MESSAGE TO THE FUCKING GOVERMENT PULL UR FINGER OUT UR ARSES AND DO SUM FIN ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!! THUMBS UP IF U AGREE!!!!

  • Do u know what pisses me off the goverment give money for stupid things, they should be putting it in to this sort of thing then people can get better and not worriey when they are gonna get kicked out because there insurance doesn't cover it. MESSAGE TO THE FUCKING GOVERMENT PULL UR FINGER OUT UR ARSES AND DO SUM FIN ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!!

  • The sad thing is, so many of us understand Brittany too well.

    xox

  • The ending is really fucking depressing. Poor girls.

  • This question might be a bit inappropriate but what's the song at the very end called?

  • anyone know any recent updates on these women, besides Polly of course?

  • @ost324 Shelly has a blog. You can follow her on blogspot... but she's doing fairly well and has recovered since Polly's death. As for Alisa and Brittany, I really tried to look them up... but couldn't find anything. I think Lauren Greenfield should do an update... and maybe a more in depth analysis of Renfrew since this documentary aired.

  • @ultravioletskies07 I agree. I have so many bad views about this hospital and what it needs is an update documentary. Maybe it has gotten better but what I know about this place is from this documentary.

  • @ultravioletskies07 Alisa is doing well!!!

  • Poor Brittany :( <3

  • i watched all of that for none of them to get better

  • @bumbleberry09 well yeah,that's just real life,not always a happy ending. :/

  • @nellynelly Nope don't know her but I looked her up and she did recover. She looked much better in the picture I saw.

  • Its sad that Polly dies in the end.

  • @jcarter1970, your sick.

  • @royalcrusadeful Truth hurts doesn't it. 

  • Does anybody know Brittany? I so hope that girl gets better.

  • The ending always gives me the chills

  • shelly's expression scares me at the end.

  • Brittany? )= Brittany now is live right..??

  • I watched this documentary countless times when I was in the depths of my anorexia. I still find it to be ridiculously triggering and gut-wrenchingly sad.

    Treatment doesn't work unless you whole-heatedly want to recover. If you don't want to recover, then treatment is completely pointless. However, if recovery is something that you want and are willing to work hard for, then entering treatment can do wonders.

  • @dollparts27 I wish someone would have said it was triggering before I watched it straight through...

  • @dollparts27 It seems to me that sometimes treatment "works" by keeping people from dying until they DO want to recover?

  • @dollparts27

    that's exactly it. im bulimic and my work right now is to try to convince myself to WANT to stop. 

  • There is no point to going to that place for what they call treatment. Want to give someone with ED even more problems, make them gain weight in a short amount of time with very little positive reinforcement from people they love or from even the staff. It isn't fair that people think that all you have to do is make a person with ED eat it doesn't work like that. People with ED hate their body and unless they realize that they are more beautiful with the weight it won't matter. I ought to know.

  • @nevscollins I disagree. I think the whole point of the clinic is, first of all, to get these women into a healthy physical state to avoid further damage, and break the cycle of relying on the endorphin release from vomiting/near-starvation for mental stabiliity. Second, to discover and treat the psychological root of the issue, whether that be defining themselves solely by their physical appearance, using food to feel in control of their lives, or whatever. Focusing on the body is the problem.

  • @nevscollins Can't get any help if you're dead from starvation. The point of the weight gain first is to make sure they don't die literally on the spot.

  • I just watched the whole thing and now I want to cry, Brittney got no help, Alisa has kids and got no help but NOW she's on track, shelly is sick again and Polly is dead. way to go FL treatment center. assholes

  • I would like to know, what is the precentage of people getting actually healthy after that treatment? Not a one of them got actually better..

  • @BlueBallerina According to a recent meta-analysis on studies of eating disorder recovery (I'd site it but I don't remember the authors) approximately 17% of people who enter treatment are still "recovered" within a five year period. However, that doesn't meant that they'll relapse afterward and the study didn't explain that there was a possibility that some of these people were lying about their "recovery". You can't always see an eating disorder from the health stats if they're intelligent.

  • @edpotkay1 modern shock therapy is not "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" anymore. the patient is given anesthesia and muscle relaxers while undergoing the shock. i work in mental health and know a few people who have had it and it really helped them. if that doesn't convince you, read "Shock" by Kitty Dukakis; very informative without all the myth surrounding modern day shock therapy. also, if i had a child with severe depression and nothing else was helping, i would for sure try shock.

  • so sad.

  • The think is, you have to want to recover to recover, and you never fully recover from an ED. It is a daily struggle to eat, and it sucks. You really can't ever be 100% ED free. You can hide it, yes, but you still hate yourself and feel sick and fat and gluttonous after you eat. You really can't understand it unless you've been through it, sadly.

  • i cried throughtout this whole documentary. Its so true

  • I don’t think they should have sent Polly home. As soon as they did that I was thinking of her safety. Now we find she has passed away. That is tragic.

    They said Shelly underwent “electric shock THERAPY”! I can not believe that in this day and age, they are still doing that! They stopped doing lobotomies a long time ago because it was not humane! Neither is shock therapy! If Shelly improved it was probably only because they literally fried her braincells!