[freak child]

I wanna join!!

i can make a discord server if you'd like since i think the original poster probably isn't gonna respond here since it's been a little while!

 

[freak child]

I am not in favour of controlling anyone. If you want to self destruct, do not bring other people into it. Do not damage others with your behaviour. Do not encourage death and starvation to anyone on earth. Eating disorders are hell and supporting ed thoughts and bullying is killing another human being.
Have you ever lost someone to illness? How would you feel knowing their death is preventable?
If there is one person on earth whose life will be spared it is worth to ban these groups.
Genuine question: where do we draw the line in your opinion? Pro ana, okay. What about pro suicide? Pro self harm. Pro anxiety. Pro schizophrenia.?

i wanted to respond to this just to share my opinion. i think that an eating disorder is most definitely not equivalent to suicide. absolutely it's really dangerous, but i think that ultimately it's a coping mechanism (albeit unhealthy) and the point of a coping mechanism is to help someone get through their life and keep going. and i think that if you're in a place where you're struggling so heavily that starving yourself and triggering yourself is the only thing that gives you motivation to stay alive at all, then recovering from your ed probably won't actually help you that much, because there's probably a lot of other things wrong (like past or current trauma). and i personally think that any unhealthy coping skill is better than actually committing suicide, it's related but unhealthy coping mechanisms can keep you alive during an extremely difficult time. because for me at least, maybe i'm not in a place where i can afford to heal, but if i keep myself alive then maybe it's a possibility someday. and if not, at least i'm alive for now.