ANA'S GIRLS: The Essential Guide to the Underground Eating Disorder Community Online

by Eda R. Uca

This groundbreaking book is the only honest, balanced and complete introduction to the frightening online eating disorder underground. Explore a world that no one wants to believe learn the secret code words, debunk the myths (find out why thousands of young girls are really flooding these sites) and read hundreds of anonymous rants, declarations of commitment and pleas for help from Ana's girls.This book does not promote eating disorders. It exposes the undeniable fact that thousands of young people are struggling in isolation with very real, life threatening disorders and we, as a society have not been able to help them. If we ignore this information, we choose to ignore their cry and lose the opportunity to gain potent insight into their world.Ana's girls are our children, our sisters, our spouses, our patients and our students; they are represented in every class and race. No community is sheltered from this pain. No community is complete without their health. Let us take the first step towards becoming whole by hearing their cry.

Genres: Mental Illness

236 pages, Paperback

First published August 3, 2004

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

The first half of this book would be worth reading if it were 2002, but this book is severely dated. For the first part, the author goes into detail about the lingo and ins and outs of pro-ana websites, which is fascinating, but again it’s dated. It’s a nice throwback, though. Super nostalgic.
However, the last half of the book is literally just forum threads from these websites. It’s completely useless. I guess if someone were an outsider to these forums, it would be slightly interesting and horrifically depressing to see how people talk when having mental illnesses, especially in a place where people rarely judge. To me, though, it was like going back to my 6th grade life when I developed anorexia and just browsed forums. It was a completely useless waste of my time to read a book when I could easily just browse an old pro ana website on archive for the exact same content.
The only good message was that these forums were a safe space for people to go when they had nowhere else to turn for help.
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[Eleonor]

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