Why do people want to be anorexic/bulimic??

they don’t want to be this way believe me I KNOW from experience…it started when I was 15 and took me nearly 25 years to stop, and now I am 42 and it still is with me, but I have to say NO…people don’t want to be alcoholics or drug addicts either…it just happens…

ye i agree with katiethree, i dont think these people actually want the disorders, i think they just wanna be mega thin, they say its perfection but its just stupid! people who actually hav these probs cant help it, can they and you get these stupid people wantin the disorders! ive had probs with things lik this for about 2yrs now and i hate it, i thank god i eat normally now

Most people who have eating disorders might wont attention they wont people to feel sorry for them. Sometimes they dont like the look of there figure or appearance and they wont to look like someone else who is really skinny, Or maybe to become popular ! … It could mean any of them things.

Sometimes people have friends that are anorexic or bulimic and their habbits rubb of on you people want to copy because they think its “cool” or they lie about it and say oah yeah I have an eating disorder.. But what their thinking is omg I cannot do it 8 hours of no food and im starving im going to go home and pigg out

I had anorexia at 7 I am now 13 People thought I was a super hero I laugh tho (: But some people cant help it and some people fake it and some people pick up others habbits.

It is more the fact that you look at yourself and you look at others and you think..why can’t people look at me the way they look at them? for some people it usually has a trigger..for example.. if you were too I don’t know..maybe…feel like you’re family don’t care about you..which too some people may not sound like a big deal but it certainly can be..then you may begin to think..why don’t they like me? and people pull themselves apart and for some people they think is it because I’m too fat? so subconciously they don’t want to eat..then they loose the weight..it makes them feel good..so they keep trying..becuase it feels like they’re doing something positive..and they think if they loose enough someone will love them..or it will reverse the bad thing..! This is only one example but it will hopefully make you realise people who are anorexic may be going through a very tough ordeal!!

a lot of people like me never chose to be it.. sounds stupid. but its just a thing what happens in the mind.. and its horrible, you cant control yourself..