Pro-Ana
Pro-Ana websites should be shut down. The only thing they do is encourage people, generally young women to have eating disorders. Instead of helping them with the disease, pro-ana websites make it easier for people to have it and it gives them ways to make it worse. It supports eating disorders in a positive way, rather then trying to help them overcome it. An eating disorder is a very serious disease. People with eating disorders become obsessed with losing weight and looking like what they think is "perfect".
On the other hand, these websites are a place where people with eating disorders can go to find people who are going through what they are. It gives them a place where they do not feel judged for what they are doing, they can recieve advice from other people or just write what they are feelig. Pro - ana/mia websites provide support for people that have eating disorders that no one else understand. People with eating disorders are often judged in a very negative way, many people don't understand that having an eating disorder in like having a disease, and they can't always help it. It is an obsession.
There are good arguments for both sides of pro-ana. Although pro-ana websites provide support for people who have eating disorders, they should also be helping them find a cure. They should be more of a support group, where people can go for help. It should still be a place where they can go to talk about things they are going through but they should get feedback that doesn't promote them to keep on doing it.
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Heyy Jackie! What's up?
Anyways, that was a really sad video you posted. I read your blog entry and I have to say that I agree with everything you wrote. I also think that the websites are bad/destructive, but on the other hand they can be a safe haven for poeple who are suffering from anorexia/bulemia.
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