I am now in her English class. So today we were discussing whether you can blame the parents for a child being sexually abused (a la 'The God of Small Things') and she went off on one about how that would be like blaming her parents for her ED, because apparently 'eating disorders are caused by the media'... what the fuck? No they are not! There are many other (larger) factors! And I tried to argue with her but she shot me down with a 'this is what I learnt in therapy'--- bitch, just because I'm not all high and mighty about it doesn't mean I'm not a sufferer (she has hinted that she suspects I am, and pointed at the red/purple bracelets when she passed me)...

Gah, I wish I could have said something but unlike some I don't believe in bragging about my weaknesses. And, as Dorothy Parker said "Spilling one's guts is as ugly as it sounds"

Sorry for the rant


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Kind of off topic, but no, you can't blame parents for child sexual abuse, unless of course they are the ones sexually abusing the child.

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Your eating disorder isn't a very suitable topic for casual conversation.  

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you wear a red bracelet?

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Every person's ED is going to be caused by something different, and maybe her's was the media. You have no right to judge her and tell her that the media wasn't the cause of her ED.

And about her "not suffering in one month of bulimia", who are you to say that she didn't suffer? I've only made my self throw up a few times, under ten probably, to lose weight and those are single-handedly the worst moments of my life. Its like nothing else. And she SHOULD be proud that she overcame something that great.

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My eating disorders have been cause by a mix of media and the idea that skinniness is beautiful, and in part by my mother, and in part by my friends, and in part by my stress, and in part by my "love life."

Every person's ED is going to be caused by something different, and maybe her's was the media. You have no right to judge her and tell her that the media wasn't the cause of her ED.

And about her "not suffering in one month of bulimia", who are you to say that she didn't suffer? I've only made my self throw up a few times, under ten probably, to lose weight and those are single-handedly the worst moments of my life. Its like nothing else. And she SHOULD be proud that she overcame something that great.

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If you have truly suffered from something, you wouldn't use it as a source of attention and talk about it all the time.

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Quote: from rebelmozzerella at 1:51 pm on Nov. 8, 2008

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My eating disorders have been cause by a mix of media and the idea that skinniness is beautiful, and in part by my mother, and in part by my friends, and in part by my stress, and in part by my "love life."

Every person's ED is going to be caused by something different, and maybe her's was the media. You have no right to judge her and tell her that the media wasn't the cause of her ED.

And about her "not suffering in one month of bulimia", who are you to say that she didn't suffer? I've only made my self throw up a few times, under ten probably, to lose weight and those are single-handedly the worst moments of my life. Its like nothing else. And she SHOULD be proud that she overcame something that great.

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If you have truly suffered from something, you wouldn't use it as a source of attention and talk about it all the time.

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Well thats way better then bottling it up inside because  if you do keep it all inside it can destroy you completely.

Post edited at 12:13 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 by musicfan3

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