BrandyBlue
3-27-05, 12:42 AM
Terri as a young girl was always struggling with her weight. She developed bulimia in young adulthood. In her attempt to stay thin, she depleted her body of vitamins and minerals.
Potassium levels in her body dipped dangerously low, and caused her to have a heart attack. Despite the efforts of many people, she was about ten minutes without enough oxygen for her brain to function. It was then that she slipped into her vegitative state, back in the 1990s.
There is a disturbing website out there called www.bluedragonfly.org. This website is set up for girls and women to support each other in their eating disorders--not to help them quit, but to help them perpetuate it.
They are encouraging young women to stay at 99 pounds or less, and they give tips right there on the website on how to do that--mostly, by the use of vomiting or laxatives.
The message on the first page of the website doesn't say such a thing, but click on the picture of the woman and read further in. Tip after tip on how to destroy yourself.
The bracelets that are sold there are for young women to wear, to show each other secretly what their "method" is--the Ana bracelet is for "anorexia",
the "Mia" bracelet, for "bulimia" and there are other disturbing discoveries there.
This was first revealed by CNN ,and it means so much more in light of all this.
Eating disorders aren't just for girls and women, they happen to boys and men more and more all the time.
Parents, I post this here mostly for you, so that you don't lose a child to this. Others, if you know someone, or if you think it might be happening to you, there is help and hope for you out there. Your local hospital will be way more than happy to help you, as will the United Way.
Please look at this site and if you can, talk to your kids about it. The "Ana" (anorexia) Trigger Pictures are especially disturbing.
Potassium levels in her body dipped dangerously low, and caused her to have a heart attack. Despite the efforts of many people, she was about ten minutes without enough oxygen for her brain to function. It was then that she slipped into her vegitative state, back in the 1990s.
There is a disturbing website out there called www.bluedragonfly.org. This website is set up for girls and women to support each other in their eating disorders--not to help them quit, but to help them perpetuate it.
They are encouraging young women to stay at 99 pounds or less, and they give tips right there on the website on how to do that--mostly, by the use of vomiting or laxatives.
The message on the first page of the website doesn't say such a thing, but click on the picture of the woman and read further in. Tip after tip on how to destroy yourself.
The bracelets that are sold there are for young women to wear, to show each other secretly what their "method" is--the Ana bracelet is for "anorexia",
the "Mia" bracelet, for "bulimia" and there are other disturbing discoveries there.
This was first revealed by CNN ,and it means so much more in light of all this.
Eating disorders aren't just for girls and women, they happen to boys and men more and more all the time.
Parents, I post this here mostly for you, so that you don't lose a child to this. Others, if you know someone, or if you think it might be happening to you, there is help and hope for you out there. Your local hospital will be way more than happy to help you, as will the United Way.
Please look at this site and if you can, talk to your kids about it. The "Ana" (anorexia) Trigger Pictures are especially disturbing.