What would you say about people who self harm in other ways? What about anorexia? Alcoholism? Suicide? It's all a bit more complex than just idiocy.

I get that the EIA tag is a bit of a joke and all, but lets not get too social darwinist eh? (Reducto ad Hitlerum not withstanding)

I'm overweight, had a heart attack 9 years ago when I was 30. I'm on low sodium diet, have 2 cordis brand stints in my chest. Grade 1 diastolic dysfunction from a little scar tissue on left ventricle.

I had severe depression and the heart attack at 30 messed my head up fierce in my thinking. First off I've never had a physical before then and I've never been sick. When my parents caught flus and I didn't they had me tested and I was a 1 in 10 or 100 thousand I forget that are immune to flu. Once a year I donate blood here in Ga that is sent to Emory in Atlanta I get paid $350 for my blood once a year.

But back to heart attack since I never had physical due to never sick I knew I was not eating healthy and used to smoke and nicotine is a vascular constrictor. It triggered the attack and was my last cigarette. It scared the addiction out of me and never had withdrawals.

But my severe mental depression although obese I became scared to eat, I went on starvation diet. I'd drink water but no food at all.

After 5th day I was so weak I couldn't move. Later I realized it takes a lot of calories to move my fatass. But I had a new danger that almost triggered cardiac arrest.

I live alone and was able to crawl to phone and call 911. They first thought it was another heart attack but heart was slowed but no problems. They did blood test and took 7 vials. About 6 hours later was the embarrassment.

Doctor came in, along with psychiatrist, nutritionist, and another counselor. I was hypokalemic. Which means potassium was dangerously low almost fatally low. Which was red flag for usually the stereotypical teenage girl with anorexia.

Took 2 IV bags of riggers lactate, shot of potassium, a little amphetamine to boost blood pressure up to normal and 24 hour observation on regular saline IV.

I still have severe depression due to weight. I have degenerative disc disease in my back so I can't get around very good. My diet is set at 1800 calories yet my I only lose 1 to 2 pounds a month. Extensive testing has shown my metabolism has come to a stop. So even though I eat very little calories and low sodium protein diet with barely any carbs with no metabolism the body only stores it as fat because at zero metabolism the body thinks it has to store instead of burn thinking its starving but its not.

But my cardiologist and general doc are trying an extremely dangerous and risky treatment to try and JumpStart my metabolism. I have to record my blood pressure hourly and go in once a week for ekg and blood enzyme test but they are using a drug not made for this as "off label" use and you aren't supposed to even use it with heart disease but that's the strict monitoring by both my doctors. The controversy is they are using adderall to force my metabolism up. Your body is forced to burn through energy stored, and the idea is once my metabolism kicks back in it should stay up on its own.

Tests look promising its my second week on it and I was averaging 1-2 sometimes 3 pound loss in one month. Now since the low dose adderall trial I lost 5 pounds in 1 week!!!

And that little victory has done wonders for my severe depression. I've actually got hope.

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@Sagemind A pictorial.

Beautiful perhaps for chubby chasers, those who adore women that do not look after themselves.

This is a knee-jerk bullshit reaction to the uber-thin basically anorexic runway models, that, quite honestly, just as few who chase chubbies, find attractive.

Fitness = beautiful. Healthy = beautiful.

Anorexia, or obesity....neither are attractive. This video and those promoting the ideas in this are just as retarded as the ones who put girls on stage with every single rib showing. Its a disgrace no matter which way you spin it.

Ooh, anorexia is so arty!

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I would search for people who look like they have anorexia.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

I like the setup. I fear that it will turn into a story about the (mis)adventures of a scrappy band of insufferable assholes ala The Walking Dead. For some reason, that's what's popular these days.


Hey, in the 90's all the models were heroin addicts with clinical depression and anorexia. Fads are weird.

>> ^Yogi:

Fucking Hell woman do you OWN a mirror!? Is this like anorexia? When she see's her reflection does she see someone who is WAY too light colored?


Looks like some form of body dysmorphic disorder, so yeah, pretty much. Anorexia can fall within that category but doesn't necessarily always have to (many different causes).

Also, you guys are terrible! All jesting aside, I hope this woman gets the help she clearly needs before she ends up passing her compulsions onto her daughter (or further the damage she may have already done). I imagine mommy here is much more naturally pretty as a fair-skinned red-head than this crispy monstrosity we see here before us (assuming the daughter takes after her genetically, the point stands either way).

Fucking Hell woman do you OWN a mirror!? Is this like anorexia? When she see's her reflection does she see someone who is WAY too light colored?

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Dupity dupe. http://videosift.com/video/Anorexia-Bulimia-Campaign-Sweden

i dont get the comments about her being too skinny. is it because you are jealous? or just so used to seeing people with eating disorders that are either fat blubs with no humanoid shape left or skinny anorexia girls? look at her face, it's neither sunk in nor swollen or anything that would imply her being malnurished. some people are just skinnier than the rest of you fatties. get over it.

To all of you guys and girls that are accusing the advert and/or company for their commercial be aware that you can and sould not buy their stuff ... duh !

As for the bad image ... don't kill me ... just look away and talk to your kid about what is real and what is pure BS (like a skeleton wearing crap on a runway, made by and destin for the innner circle of fashion or a six foot tale plastic women and/or man on the cover of a magasin) !

I'm with rottenseed on this one. How bad can it be that a lemming tinks that weighing 88 pounds is ok. Where are the parent of that girl that lost her life of anorexia ?

Like always, nobody talks of the solutions only of the problems ...

PS : by telling me to shut up I needed to vent ... don't try to stop people from talking, the person with a brain tend to be difiant and would prefer to be dead then not speak out.