Lolz. As a member of the livejournal communitites. I don't see how they are bad. These people support recovery while helping those who are looking for people like themselves.
April 5th, 2009 at 09:40pm
You don't?
- bloodiprincess:
- I don't see how they are bad.
Writing isn't a mental disorder.
- boy interrupted:
- These sites are no different to anorexics or bulimics as Mibba is for writers. .
Yeah, maybe I should've phrased it better. Normal probably wasn't the right word, but I might've made it a bit offensive otherwise :XD.
- Tom Fletcher.:
- ^ But making someone with anorexia feel normal can inhibit recovery. I understand what you're trying to say and I do feel it's important in normal situations for people to feel normal, but if someone who is killing themselves this way feels as though they don't need help then they won't seek it. I don't think that Mibba and pro-ana/mia sites should be compared at all. Writing is a way of expressing creativity and should be encouraged, while easting disorders need to be treated and banished.
Which makes them dangerous. Obviously.
- boy interrupted:
- Of course they act as a trigger; that's the point.
Mere lifestyles don't generally get people sectioned under the Mental Health act.
- boy interrupted:
- but it's simply a lifestyle.
Can all mental disorders be lifestyles, then?
- boy interrupted:
- For some people, anorexia is neither a disease nor an addiction, but it's simply a lifestyle.
It's not... such a choice.
- what the chipmunk?:
- ^ But how is it a mental disorder if you choose to be that way? Is it as simple as dying your hair, going ana?
I think that helps prove that it's a mental disease.
- jeph.:
- Reading about them here, I visited the pro-ana/mia livejournal site and to be honest, it completely shocked me.
They're even worse than I was/am and some of them look like living skeletons. I just can't understand how people think that sagging skin and protruding bones is beautiful.