movies like this put thoughts into kids heads about becoming the character...even though the character gets so sick kids will try it and become just like her....trapped in a disorser that is hard to escape....i beg parents to not let their kids watch these type of movies!
shareI am not an easily influenced person, yet I was in the early stages of an eating disorder when I watched this, and it just gave me tips. Me and my friend were kind of like these girls, and our friendship ended over our disorders.
Anyway, stuff like this always wanted to make me be more anorexic.
This may scare some girls, but chances are they are not the ones who would have an eating disorder anyway.
I kind of agree with the original poster, I developed bulimia after watching a character in a movie purge when I was 12.
shareI actually thought the exact opposite. I think most movies about topics like this can be very triggering, but this was was great. I fee like there was a lot of character building for the parents which made the difference. In other ones, usually there's these psycho careless parents, but this mom was really hands-on. She didn't just jump her kid on a therapist and ignore the problem. And even though the dad was kind of a dead-beat, by the end, you could really feel for him.
shareIf you already have 'tendencies', it's a total trigger movie.
shareI know you will never read this but I have to say something. Movies like this bring awareness and open up conversation between teens and parents. Or even teens and teens. I grew up watching many of these Lifetime movies. I remember as a teen seeing a rerun of the TV movie about Karen Carpenter. Because I saw it I was able to tell the dangers of starving yourself and binge eating to a friend who wanted to try it. We were only 15 too. She told me many years later after I informed her what I saw in the movie and what happened to real life Karen Carpenter she did her own searching in our local library and saw I was correct. What she read scared her.
Another time a friend and I were watching a Lifetime movie and it was about sexual abuse. It opened an opportunity for me to tell my friend I was abused as child too. She confided in me she was raped not long ago. Together we told her parents.
Over the years as I’ve had my own kids when they were told enough to know about certain things I’d sometime use a Lifetime movie as a way to show them it visually instead of just discussing it.
Thinking about the old 70s Afterschool Specials. They dealt with serious topics like Lifetime movies such as rape, parental abuse, drinking, suicide and more. When you bring a serious situation into story form it tends to stick better.