Posted by Racer on September 7, 2006, at 14:47:34
In reply to i wonder, posted by zazenducky on September 7, 2006, at 9:21:03
>> i personally don't think images in the media have very much to do with anorexia i think it justs serves as a rationale for the behaviour rather than causing it.
Great question. I dunno -- I do look at those articles while I wait, and my reaction is always, "I gotta lose weight..." Not what my T is shooting for...
Funny thing is that when we bring photographs to group, I look at those tiny stick figures and want to cry. I want to tell them they're good enough, that they're lovely and talented and fabulous and TOO DANG THIN! They say similar things about me, but I just brush them off. I know there's distortion there, and that nearly everything triggers my obsession with losing weight, but I think maybe I agree that those articles about AN just trigger it in others.
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