what does it feel like to be anorexic?

a few months ago my mate went anorexic, and i don't understand why??!!
she was really really pretty and she wasn't fat AT ALL!!!
she was a really happy person and she was really nice!!!
but then she got really ill and i found out she wenty anorexic!
she had to stay in this hospital about 2 hours away for about 2 months maybe a little bit longer, and i don't want to ask her why she went anorexic cause it might upset her, but i want to know why people go anorexic......... does anyone know??
luv RaNdOmGaL xxx

im not really sure but (my friend says) it makes them lyke they can actually control of sumthing wen theyre goin thro hell... idk if that helps or not hopefully it does... make sure ur there to support her and let her kno u care! XXXXX
JL

Well i aint claiming to be in the know or anything but i will give you my opinion ...
From what I have seen and from talking to a few close friends who have been affected, it seems that there is generally an underlying problem which the sufferer feels they do not have an adequate (sp?) amount of control over. This could be something huge or something fairly insignificant but either way - bear in mind it still affects the patient if they have taken extreme action of this sort.
In an effort to gain control over something, anything, many anorexics starve themselves or limit their intake of food (nutrients) to a point where it often becomes dangerous and/or life threatening. Although this position is not a comfortable one, it is the element of control which many of these people strive to maintain.
I hope this helps you. Take care,
xXxForesakenxXx

Why would you like to know? So you can become anorexic? Don't be silly. You all should think before you reply to post like this.

I did my GCSE Drama exam on anorexia a few moths ago, and my opening speech was this :

Many people every year are affected by this physiological illness. Anorexia. It is not something you can catch, it develops in the mind maybe due to bullying, problems in life or just sheer lack of confidece. They themselves see a fat person staring back in the mirror. Now, I don't mean they look, and think "Wow my bum looks huge!" No, they are so desperately unhappy that it could even be a struggle to look at their own appearance. Theu eventually stop eating, starving themselves of all food in an attempt to gain self respect. To lok how THEY believe others will see them as being more attractive. This is most commonly known in girls due to this pressure of the perfect image - flat stomach, stick legs but that doesn't mean boys can't be affected aswell. Just as we can suffer .. so can you.

People with Anorexia Nervosa, or anorexia as most commonly known see themselves as fat. They starve themselves, and no matter how little they eat they feel they have eaten too much. Life is constantly controlled by what you wear, your weight and what you eat.

When you eat, anything, even if it's a little bit you feel fat, full and disgusting. You see yourself as fat no matter what people tell you. I felt like there was nothing worse than being forced to eat, and if i was i would just chuck it up anyway. All you do is think about food and how you can avoid it and it's just stupid. It take up all your time, it was crazy. It's like a phobia..
And once you start it takes years to get over it. It isn't good.

i am not sure why the do but i do hope your friend gets better and i hope you ok to.

outtie
~Ash~

People become anorexic because they have a distorted image of themselves....when they look in they mirror they see themselves as being bigger when in actuallity the person could be very small... She can look at people bigger then her and think that they are skinny...it is just the way she sees herself... hope this helped luv yas mwah

-kayla-

natalie84 for the record.......... i'm not planning on becoming anorexic, and i'm already on a warning on this site for saying something horrible so i can't say all the things i wanna say right now to you!!!! but all i did was make this post becase my mate was perfect, she was beautiful and she WASN'T fat!!! and i just didn't want to ask her incase it upset her and i would feel very uncomfortable talking to her about it anywayz, so i wondered if there was any polite people on here who might be able to help me understand her!!! and there are and i want to thank everyone who has explained it a bit more for me, i kind of understand but i still don't understand what was going through her mind when she thought about not eating, she told her best friend (who told me and a few others) that gracie (that was the girl) started dieting and started to eat less and less, and she didn't mean to become anorexic but before she knew it she wasn't eating!!!!

thanx again to all the NICE people that helped me!!!
luv RaNdOmGaL xxx

"she told her best friend (who told me and a few others)"

Aren't best friends meant to keep secrets like that?

no coz it wasn't a secret, i think either gracie told her or gracies parent's told her, but it wasn't a secret!!! but she was only allowed to tell gracies close friends!!! and she only reluctaluntly (sp) told me!!! cause gracies best mate didn't like me that much!!!
luv RaNdOmGaL xxx

this is old...deja'vu

i know but i had to write on it!!!
can't be bothered to write why!!!
lol
luv RaNdOmGaL xxx

yeh me too:S?!?! lol...sorry just barged in on this 'serious' thing going on!!!
about anorexia...its something they can control...they feel so low about themselves and their lives and that they can't control anything...so they control their weight...it just gets out fo hand.
im speaking of experience but of course there's more to it...and different for every person...so yeh.
take care everyone x x x

i'm jst waiting for some1 to say a feeling or a reaosn why she might have became anorexic, so far she didn't feel bad about her life, she was the exact opposite!!!!
luv RaNdOmGaL xxx

natalie84 thats extreamly unfair u should check the background b4 u start guessin randomgal just happens 2 b 1 of my best m8s and i no what u said extreamly upset her as i no she would never ever b come anorexic so plz dnt u ever ever say anythin 2 upset her again please.
shes just upset about her m8 and was just trying to understand her.

i really dont say i know put i would imagen it would kinda be sacry and depressing.

But i really dont know

Emmma

sexcbish, you nor Random can tell me what to say and/or what not to say. I have the right to speak freely just as you do. I don't care if what I said upset her. Deal with it. Get over it. Suck it up and move on. It wasn't that serious. A young girl asking how it feels to be anorexic is scary. I was making a point to everyone who was going to post...to just be careful how they answered. I was making a suggestion to everyone to not make it seem like all is well starving yourself. I didn't say it in so many words but if you had any intelligence in your little brain you would have seen that. Neither of you have the sense God gave a billy goat...grow up and don't waste your time arguing with me.

To the original post; it is one of the, if not the single, most horrible feelings in the world. It's absolute mental and physical torture and it feels like the world will never want you to be what you are.

It's far more about the mental anguish than physical...

I know from experience.

♥Niki

i wasn't trying to tell you what to say or what not to say!!! i was just saying that, i didn't like what you said because it's not true!!! i was worried about my friends for ages, i could hardly eat or sleep but i knew i had to eat for gracie!!! gracie is now better, and i just thought, u don't know anything about me, so you can't exactly come on here and tell people to think before they answer cause i mite wanna know beacause i mite wanna be anorexic!!!
and sexcbish was just sticking up for me!!! what you said did sound out of order, we can't help it if we didn't agree or like what you said, we decided to speak our opinions just like you did!!! but it just so happens that your opinion didn't show as an opinion it showed as a mean comment!!!

anywayz i don't care about you because i can't be bothered to sit here arguing with you, when i have worse things to worry about!!!

thanx sexcbish!!! luv ya hun 4eva and alwayz!!!!
c ya 2moz!!!
luv RaNdOmGaL xxx

Anorexia is actually more about control. wen some people think they cant control anything that goes on in their life they realize they can control their eating habits

go to a pro-ana site. n thwere r heapsa ana and mia blog rings on xanga

its a living hell

you don't really ''feel'' anorexia, because you generally don't know that that is what it is. It's all about control, no matter what anyone tells you, you're going to keep on doing what you do to your body because you think it's right. Sometimes the anorexia can be because of other problems in life, because people feel that it is one of the only things they can actually control, themselves and their appearance. It's classified as a mental illness, and is never really cureable, just treatable.

Random you surely are a random person. Your comments don't make any God damn sense. I said people should think before they post as to not give you the wrong impression should the reason you asked this question be because you wanted to be anerexic. My point was to not let you think it was peaches and cream, an easy way out of a terrible situation. Think before YOU post twat.

umm.... ever been hungry before? well, there you go

Above me...it's in MANY cases the reason for any self harm. People who cut, burn or like you have eating disorders. Many people feel as though their self harm is the only thing in their life they can control which brings them great pleasure. They can control when, where, how much, and why they do it. And you're right some people DO have distorted images of their bodies which cause them to form eating disorders but that is not the case in all people. You asked Britt if that was the reason for HER case but yet because it's not for yours you make it seem like she's totally wrong and she is not...you couldn't possibly start a figtht because it wouldn't be worth fighting with someone who didn't think before posting.

And Random...you went on and on about how you don't have an eating disorder but in another post I can recall you saying how fat you thought you were. I happen to think this post is about you and not a friend. Maybe you should talk to a professional or a family member. I'd hate to see a young girl like you go down the wrong road.

Zac---that was a pretty entertaining comment.

I dunno how it feels. Why dont you try it and let me know.

my friend was anorexic once, she was so skinny and starving herself all the time, we could all she it happen but there was nothing we could do and she didnt tell us why cos she didnt admit her problem.

but she went away for the summer holidays and didnt come back and we all thought the worst, but it turned out she was in rehab. we never saw her again, bless her.x.

I think this is one of the saddest things young girls deal with. It's terrible that girls make themselves feel this way. I hate to see people go through this. I look at myself and I feel perfect...whether I am to the next one I could care less. I am EXACTLY the way I am for a reason. God makes no mistakes. I wish everyone could feel that same way. It hurts me to explain the way I feel to girls who hate themselves as they just can not understand. A girl I met on here told me of her eating disorder she HAD and it broke my heart to know she ever went through such pain as she is such a beautiful girl. I pray that all of you find something within yourselves that allows you to love YOU for who you are. I hope one day SOON you can look in the mirror and see the true beauty you all hold.