How to tackle bulimia?
How can we stop people wanting to be too thin?
The Royal College of Psychiatrists wants the government to take action against websites that promote anorexia and bulimia. The sites give tips on how to lose weight and promote the eating disorders. But would banning them do anything to tackle the problem? Does the blame lie with society's attitude to body image?
If you have suffered from an eating disorder, what caused it? Is the prominence of extremely thin models in the media the real problem? Where does the pressure to be too thin come from?
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I am currently "suffering" from an eating disorder and have no desire to recover. I have been in treatment for almost two months, but have found the approach very distressing. I was made to eat far more than I was used to straight away, rather than have the mental side sorted first.
I feel that I just wanted to be thin, rather than any other influence. I have thought about other possible reasons that there could be, but still feel that I just wanted to be thinner.
I also feel that the pressure to be healthy has not helped whatsoever. Calories plastered over packaging make things very difficult to eat.
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OK - two for one! The Great North Bun. And bulimia. I will be jocular but do NOT find the latter funny.
I have just noticed someone is willing to pay nearly £40,000 pounds for a repast with someone Stateside.
One meal. £39,000 and change?
A sort of celebrity of course - proposed dinner companion and a politician and role model.
Which leads us to the more serious subject of bulimia.
Comments made on the weight of celebrities formerly known as "thin" are no help at all. Said boy or girl puts on an ounce - it is seemingly jeered at - allegedly in any number of magazines or Websites. Why?
Weight loss and gain is normal. I laugh at jokes about how thin someone is say on Mock the Week but it is not funny really and I sigh when a death is announced of someone who has told themselves - or had been told - that to continue in their said career of being a model - they also need to be a sort of "stick insect". No offence anyone. Some people are naturally thin. I wish! lol
The race to fit into so called "everyday clothes" after giving birth to children - just to show - hey - I am back to being "fit" and perhaps re-impregnated by someone equally "fit" - I would suggest doesn't help either.
Anyway. The North Bun? As an auction? Fine for the Charity involved and monies received.
But count me out.
I wouldn't give you tuppence! That is my pennyworth.
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