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My Personal Opinion

posted 18 years ago by dogluver120
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I enjoyed watching this documentary. I thought it was very sad, but informative. I have suffered for 4.5 years from Anorexia and though i found it to be sad. I don't believe thses centers help very much. Outpatient is much better. I would never go there beause of many reasons, they didn't seem that caring, and stuff, and their staff is scary, i don't think they should have all those overweight people, that would just scare me off. but I did enjoy watching this since i could really relate to all teh girls tehre.

[–] JrBorch86 18 years ago

I enjoyed watching this documentary. I thought it was very sad, but informative. I have suffered for 4.5 years from Anorexia and though i found it to be sad. I don't believe thses centers help very much. Outpatient is much better. I would never go there beause of many reasons, they didn't seem that caring, and stuff, and their staff is scary, i don't think they should have all those overweight people, that would just scare me off. but I did enjoy watching this since i could really relate to all teh girls tehre.

dogluver120, I'm sorry to hear of your struggles...

I too have suffered from anorexia but I never went to treatment or anything...so I wouldn't know anything about it from a personal standpoint...(althought the documentary was interesting...)

As for a lot of the nurses being overweight...no offence but this is just in general, but I wish people would stop commenting on how the overweight nurses shouldn't be working there. It would be discrimination not to hire them because of their weight...

And considering the shape most of these women are in- it wouldn't be a very good idea to have very thin nurses as it could trigger them even further...

Ciao,

Peace & Love,

Jen

*~*MoOdYJeNnY*~*

[–] dogluver120 18 years ago

I suppose i agree about that it would be discrimination, i'm just saying that if it were me there, it would be incredibly triggering to have someone there that i was terrified to become like that. Especially since all of them were like that, that would scare me off a bit. But i did enjoy the documentary, i think it was educational and can help others who are struggling.

[–] sarajb16 18 years ago

I understand what you are saying dogluver. My boyfriend and I actually said that as we were watching the movie. And it's not just they were overweight it's that a few of them were obese. They already scared to gain weight, so they were probably twice as scared because they thought they were going to end up grossly overweight like the women taking care of them. I do think it was good though that the dietician was a healthy weight.
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[–] vgreene13 18 years ago

Found these young women to be thoroughly unlikeable. Therefore, I had little sympathy for them.

[–] noveltylibrary 18 years ago

I found the twin to be really annoying HOWEVER I thought to myself usually the most obnoxious person is the one most in pain...sure enough in therapy she touched on the "unspeakable" pain she has. I assumed it was sexual abuse, but of course I could be wrong. I try to remember that now if someone bugs me.

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[–] hodie 17 years ago

Dogluver120, then it's good that you're not going to Renfrew because you'd just be wasting everyone's time.

What are you doing for your recovery, if I may ask?

God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety

[–] ailsamulligan 17 years ago

I find it worse if I am working with skinny people as I worried that I'll get bigger than them and I refuse to gain.

Recovery from an ED is the hardest thing to do I spent 8 months working on it only to relapse and end up at square one. I've learnt to live with OCD, stop SI'ing but my ED is the one thing that I can't shift!

To anyone currently making the attempt I wish you the best of luck!