Community Pro-Ana - "I need to lose 20 more pounds or I'll never be pretty!"

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If you're medically-inclined, I'd be really interested in your take on the following stories. I just grabbed them from her Instagram, where she has them as a pinned highlight.
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She’s been up against a doctor who kept a watchful eye on her and didn’t coddle her.
The disease she’s talking about is also called Anderson disease and it’s caused by mutations in GBE1. There are multiple types - the most severe kills within the first year. The least severe gives muscle, liver and cardiac damage. None give you the skellies.
(There is a disease called lipodystrophy that does, but she doesn’t have it.)
What’s probably happened is she’s had a standard genetic panel or two done and come up with a mutation in that gene that has no or unknown clinical significance. There are multiple mutations that don’t seem to do much and a lot of them are listed. Anna (vegan ginger) seems to have done this as well.
She has anorexia, not Anderson disease.
 
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Newest brain rot from pro-ana Twitter. Because taking drugs made in some random lab in China is totally safe and okay
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Goosebumps said:
Newest brain rot from pro-ana Twitter. Because taking drugs made in some random lab in China is totally safe and okay

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It probably is safe. It’s a designer hormone antagonist, their side effects tend to be limited and slow. Being made in China doesn’t make much of a difference, China (along with India, surprisingly enough) has very advanced biochemistry industry. There’s a small chance it was pilfered from a pile of product that was rejected for contamination, but more likely it was just purchased very cheaply and then resold at a highly inflated price. China takes theft and selling unlicensed medicine to Chinese very seriously, but there are few checks on selling to westoids, so keeping the operation legal makes the most sense.
The actual issue is she probably doesn’t need it. In a trial with 300 subjects this medication had the effect of reducing patient weight by on average 17%. That’s probably combined with a modest diet and exercise, but still a super impressive result. But she doesn’t need to lose weight, and she certainly doesn’t need to lose 25% of it.
Nevermind, I’m an idiot. She would never be prescribed this by a doctor, but losing 17% fat won’t kill her.
 
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Goosebumps said:
Newest brain rot from pro-ana Twitter. Because taking drugs made in some random lab in China is totally safe and okay

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least braindead starving, interrupted poster. injecting an unmarked vial of chinese chemicals is doing more to lose weight than most of the posters in that community.
 
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This is disturbing because individuals with anorexia have a higher rate of suicidal ideation than those without eating disorders (especially anorexia), however they are less likely to attempt.** In other words they're a lot more likely to think about it, but less likely to do it. Now with MAID it's being made available as a service to them, which is essentially removing that barrier between thinking about it and being able to do it.
**source https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8159103/
 
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Pro-Ana has been overrun by autistic troons lately. For every 99 pooners crying about weight limits for top surgery (from the real anas and the fat wannabes! Finally, equality!) there's the rare, autistic as fuck mtf. This dude in particular is vomiting his life story in the unprotected parts of EDSF and the unbridled mental illness is a real treat.

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It's giving that happened energy and of course the asspat brigade is all over this dude.
 
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I'm surprised no one's brought up the community of "ana male" ed FTMs on tumblr specifically. Virtually any post of a "malespo" or "guy ed ideal" (basically emaciated kpop/skater boy types) is from them and I'm 99% sure that every "guy" who is a part of this community is FTM.
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Seems like more damning evidence of absurd body dysmorphia among zoomers than anything
 
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Grausamkeit said:
I'm surprised no one's brought up the community of "ana male" ed FTMs on tumblr specifically. Virtually any post of a "malespo" or "guy ed ideal" (basically emaciated kpop/skater boy types) is from them and I'm 99% sure that every "guy" who is a part of this community is FTM.
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Seems like more damning evidence of absurd body dysmorphia among zoomers than anything
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It is true that EDs are rampant in trans demographic but a lot of these teenagers mistake body dysmorphia for dysphoria. If they got help for their EDs they wouldn't feel the need to troon out
 
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It is true that EDs are rampant in trans demographic but a lot of these teenagers mistake body dysmorphia for dysphoria. If they got help for their EDs they wouldn't feel the need to troon out
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Exactly. There was a thread on Pancake (I'm pretty sure it got deleted, couldn't find it when I went back to screenshot) where all the ftms were trying to guess how many pounds they'd lose after top surgery and people started showing off their surgery scars (y'know, if you could tell them apart from all the self-harm scars). Absolutely vile and delusional.

It's sad that the social media crackdown has made all the best pro-ana cows retreat into forums. There aren't any major lolcows out in the open to discuss anymore. Maybe if I took the time to hunt the tags on TikTok but... then I'd have to be on TikTok.
 
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The Post Pictures of your Meals threads are always lol worthy. A heady mix of FVG, absolute cope (whoopsy daisy I ate real food tee-hee but these calories don't count please don't call me fat 😠), and "that went in the trash and got covered in dish soap right after the picture was taken.

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Dry fried eggs. Jesus wept.

This one's fun, but fewer pictures and more depression.

On the other side of the spectrum, the bulimics post pics of their binge hauls.

It's funny how the anas and mias comment on each other's posts, being fake as fuck. "Omg babe, all that binge food looks divine (you fat heifer holy shit)" "Wow, that's all you ate you're so good at restricting hun take care of yourself (you skinny whore bitch)".
 
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Edtwt is absolutely unhinged. I think some of it comes from the more traditional forums desperately trying to cover everything in a veneer of inclusivity and recovery and fake positivity.

The Cartman thing is probably "ironic" but is most likely fatspo or reverse thinspo (which is ostensibly banned on places like EDSF for being bullying).
 
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These clowns know that anorexia progressively makes you retarded right? Like your brain starts to decay alongside your body?
Group itself is full of tiktokbrained zoomers fetishizing both extreme cram studying and extreme weight loss (the Korean Kombo)
 
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Twinkie said:
This is disturbing because individuals with anorexia have a higher rate of suicidal ideation than those without eating disorders (especially anorexia), however they are less likely to attempt.** In other words they're a lot more likely to think about it, but less likely to do it. Now with MAID it's being made available as a service to them, which is essentially removing that barrier between thinking about it and being able to do it.
**source https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8159103/
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No one is obligated to stay alive. It's difficult to think about, but intractable, severe mental illness is no different than a terminal disease. Anyone who wants MAID should be allowed to pursue it.
 
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So I've browed this thread and browed the pro-ana.."eating disorder support forum" and I don't really understand it's purpose? Is it a space for people with EDs to just compare and get worse? or is it genuinely a support forum?

Also, is there any correlation to these pro-anas/EDs and having korean? idols in her profile pictures?
 
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