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Males suffer from Eating Disorders! This is also a website for them.
Males will not only suffer from their anorexia, bulimia and distorted body image, they will suffer from being misunderstood.
Males are often seriously sick by the time they are diagnosed due to parenta nd professionals assumptions that males are immune to this illness. As a result, boys and men with eating disorders are often extra difficult to save.
Guys - you are not alone. I've worked with many teenage guys who have eating disorders, too.
Na Mas Te. ~ I greet the spirit within you ~
This site is dedicated to all those still caught in the web of disordered eating.
This is NOT a "pro-anorexia" site. (sorry to disappoint) Having any eating disorder is a painful, lonely, scary experience... this site attempts to directly show just that.
THINK FOR YOURSELF.
Navigate the site with the scrolling menu on the left... but beware, because it's a big, FAT site!
Hello! Welcome to my website! It's nice to have you! This is a rather large, ironically, I'd call it "FAT" old website that has had the honor of being a highly-visited, sometimes questionable, apparently provocative (though no longer so much so), and rather graphic (literaly and figuratively) website dedicated to the complicated subject of eating disorders. Hope you have a chance to cruise around...
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If you've never been here before, please scroll down & read this page
Otherwise, feel free to use the scroll on the left hand site to see the entire contents of this website ~ the Fridge and the Freezer ~ and please relax and enjoy the site...
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The best advice I ever got: People like People who like themselves.
This site is written with nothing but love by a recovering anorexic/bulimic/compulsive eater, who now works with anorexics, bulimics and compulsive eaters... This site attempts to dig deeper into the meaning, struggle, experience, causes, and cures of disordered eating.
My goal here is to speak the unspoken!!
I believe in free will. You are entering this site of your own free will. Should you choose to continue looking through these pages please consider the warnings first and be willing to take personal responsibility for making the decision to do so. I welcome you with love.
WARNING: If you don't read the text BEFORE the pictures you are MISSING the whole point of my site.
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"If you deny this, then it's your fault." -Placebo
ANY ONE OF US COULD DROP DEAD FROM OUR ILLNESS NO MATTER WHAT OUR WEIGHT IS.
This site is meant to be READ. All pictures are of RARE and EXTREME cases (& therefore are not representative). The most important thing we all know is true but pretend isn't, is that almost ALL people with Eating Disorders do NOT appear drastic in their body WEIGHT, and, in fact, ALL people with Eating Disorders can DIE at ANY time and at ANY weight. Please READ what I have to say in order to UNDERSTAND why my site is the way it is. I've worked hard and I humbly invite you to sit down with a cup of tea and spend some time reading, looking, learning and THINKING in depth about Eating Disorders.
This page is meant for people who already know the basics about the three eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder (compulsive eating).
If you do NOT know the definitions, symptoms, medical consequences and other basic facts please refer to my link section and visit a site or two that has the basic information available (there are many such web sites). This web page assumes you know what I am talking about when I discuss these three disorders, and attempts to dig deeper into the meaning, struggle, experience, causes, and cures of disordered eating. There are visual aides scattered throughout this page as well as creative writing and opinions that I have developed after my own seven year battle, subsequent years of recovery & study of clinical psychology. Enjoy the site.
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I'd like to quickly personally thank the Computer Master who is also my best friend, for all his amazing late night help... if I am the anorexic goddess, than you are the king of everything else, Jase.
Welcome all. Love, Lisa Arndt, M.A.
Repaired Link - Visit eating disorder activist, LA Crompton's amazing website & artwork at: www.dreamer-girl.com
"These bonds are shackle free..." -Placebo
Important Note: The photos on this site are absolutely not intended to inspire self-harm, but instead, to GET HONEST (and encourage honesty) about the fascination of physically visible pain (via starvation) that a lot of us have... and to encourage people NOT to look this way, but to satisfy morbid anorexic curiosity by LOOKING only and NOT BECOMING. In addition, the photos are absolutely NOT accurate, in the sense that NEARLY ALL people with eating disorders do not look like these images! I've met hundreds of real life victims of eating disorders and can tell you firsthand that the photos are only of the RARE and EXTREME cases. Don't be fooled by this site or the media... NEARLY ALL victims of these difficult diseases appear "normal" in weight.
You know I am speaking the TRUTH, you feel it in your own bodies, your heart flutters (and it scares you for a moment, but you continue to self-destruct), you get dizzy (and I mean ALL of you, of US, the bulimics and compulsive eaters and anorexics) and you dismiss it, but you know something is wrong, that your body is not well, that only a doctor could measure the amount of damage and DECAY that has already occurred inside of you. SO don't lie to me, others, and mostly don't lie to YOURSELF that you can't die or you aren't really sick just
because
you don't look positively terrifying to the untrained eye. You should be scared. If you are practicing an eating disorder you could DIE. If you are lucky, you'll cause minimal permanent damage to your body (and you only get ONE body in this life). The harm to your mind and soul is also evident. We do NOT have to live this way, do you hear me??? We do NOT have to be so unhappy, obsessed, lonely, depressed, fearful, sad, angry, isolated and hateful. Begin to crawl out of this tangled web as soon as you can, PLEASE, and I hope this site can help you at least at little bit, in recognizing that you are stuck in a spider web that you have helped to weave. And I beg you not to use these pages as a means to hurt yourself, compare yourself, judge yourself, or anything other than as means to unravel yourself from the most deadly web you'll ever get caught in.
Anyone with a full blown eating disorder, regardless of their size, and deserves great concern, drastic worry, love, compassion, recognition, help, and the best possible care.
Blessed Be. -Lisa Arndt
There is as much beauty in the dark as in the light. Nature offers both and judges none. There is celebration and joy inside the darkest of paintings and songs. Translate your eating disorder into art.
My passion for this subject, working as a therapist day after day and never giving up is "fed" entirely by the adolescents who I work with, who let me work with them, who come into my life and touch it again and again in amazing ways. ~ Webmistress Lisa
Lovelies & Studlies - You are all beautiful.
(I also call my clients/kids goddesses & gods... munchkins... you know who you are)
A lot of the motivation I have to work on this site, pay for it, and defend it when necessary... comes from my anger towards the personal loses I have experienced directly due to eating disorders. Not just losses of physical bodies ("earth suits"), but losses of wonder-filled child-souls outweighed by an eating disorder critical voice that submerges all who get tangled.
Paula, Debbie, Cynthia, Susan, Rick, and all who've perished - I will keep fighting for you.
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love is the answer to everything
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