How To Tell If A Website About Anorexia Is Dangerous

How To Tell If A Website About Anorexia Is Dangerous

How To Tell If A Website About Anorexia Is Dangerous

Divya Kakaiya (Program Founder and Clinical Supervisor) gives expert video advice on: How can I tell if a website about anorexia is dangerous?

How can I tell if a website about anorexia is dangerous?

You as a parent go to the website. Go on a website, and look at that website. The way you know it's dangerous is if you see a website glorifying anorexia. The essence of a pro-ana website would be to glorify anorexia. Why should a size 0 be glorified? Why should anorexia be glorified if anorexia is going to lead to death? Why should we glorify that? From a feminist perspective, I can go off on this because when we get girls to start obsessing about empty things like calories and fat grams and things like that, then what we're doing is we're taking this whole population of the top three percent of girls, and kicking them out because now they're no longer functional. If you're not nourishing your brain, that means you're not getting any food. Do you think academically you're going to get anywhere? Absolutely not. You think career-wise you'll get anywhere? Absolutely not. So we have the top three percent of girls who actually get kicked out of functioning in life as a result of their eating disorder. So we have this huge piece where we're living in a society that's really encouraging these girls to fill their bright minds with empty thoughts about calories and fat grams and sizes.