HELP!!!!!

What can help you recover from the disorder:

1) Speak positively to yourself. I constantly challenged the voice and fears inside me that underminded my needs, rights, and desires.

2) Create visual reminders. I surrounded myself with books, pictures, and sayings that gave me permission to eat guilt-free, knowing it would result in stronger and clearer thoughts, decisions, and feelings.

3) Take responsibility for yourself. I made a decision to no longer be a passive victim, but an active agent in my own life. That meant making decisions that worked for me.

4) Take risks. Instead of isolating myself, fearing failureand not reaching my potential, I became publicabout my eating disorder- I told people about my struggle. This diminished the power of silence, fear, and lonliness.

5) Accept and work with help. At one time I thought I had to get better on my own so I resisted the support of friends, family, and professionals. While it is true that I needed to make the decision to get better on my own, I needed to feel others supported me even when I had to learn by making mistakes.

6) Make planned changes. I set small goals to reach majordesires. Take one day at a time.

7) Keep a Journal. Recording my thoughts and feelings over time helped me see how I was changing.

8) Enter into relationships. I benefited from the healing of friendship. Friends reflected an image of myself during our interactions. Relationships helped me to find out who I was, what I wanted to be, and with whom I would share my life.

By kiran xx

Thinternet

on >Tonight With Trevor McDonald< Fiona Foster reveals the horrifying network of pro-anorexia websites encouraging young girls to starve themselves.
It gives advice and tips >so called commandments< that anorexics should follow. The short documentary features two battling anorexics, one is a 24 year old who has been battling for 13 years. the other anorexic featured is a 14yr old girl who has been battling for 2yrs - however her parents refuse to admit her into a psychiatric facility.
however both anorexics said that the websites helped them share their story with others, and that they had a sense of acceptance and belonging.
Two specialists are interviewed in the documentary who both state that the government/ local heath trusts have failed to support families and anorexics, as in most cases the psychiatric ward wasn't the best place to help them recover.
interesting facts:
* 9/10 anorexics feel they can't tell anyone
* 1% said they could tell their parents
* it is the biggest teenage killer after car accidents

below are links to newspaper websites who have featured eating disorders in relation to the media...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001290023-2006020519,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1999860,00.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001290023-2006550228,00.html

by neema.

documentary- THIN promo

A cinema verité documentary that takes us inside the walls of Renfrew, a clinic in southern Florida that specializes in the treatment of eating disorders. Renowned documentary photographer Lauren Greenfield makes her directorial debut with this film and chronicles the treatment of four women as they struggle to overcome an illness that has consumed their lives. With breathtaking style and remarkable intimacy, Greenfield interweaves both the physical and emotional ramifications of this complicated disease and the stories of the brave wounded women on this arduous journey to recovery." THIN premieres Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 9PM EST on HBO

This documentary is very interesting as it really goes deep into what young girls think, and it is quite sad because they just want to be thin. It shows a bit where a girl is crying so much because she wants to be thin.

They say they want to be noticed, they don’t want to be a pile of bones and they don’t want to be really big, they don’t really know what normal is anymore.

The look of pizza disgusted one girl and she didn’t even want to look at it as she was just living on fruit, the documentary follows on with trying to get her to be normal and get her well.

I thought the documentary was wicked, it proper gets to you into it, and it makes you feel how the girls are feeling that suffer from it.

Xx Kiran xX

Resarch for practical production

This ia a documentary similar to our production. it has been shot over a period of four years and is an in-depth story of one young woman's long struggle with eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia. Beginning with Regina's decision at fourteen to diet after a boy's rejection of her because she was overweight, A Season in Hell follows Regina's continuous struggle though high school, college, hospitalization, and an engagement.
This documentary shows how a girl suffers from severe illnesses which all resulted form a rejection by a boy at school who thought she was fat.

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