Wannarexia?

[AutumnDae]

In an issue of my Teen Vogue, it had an article on Wannarexia. Apparently it is people who aren't anorexic or bulimic, but see it as a way to lose weight. But my question is, if the use it to lose weight, wouldn't they have the disorder? I mean if they make themselves throw up, aren't they bulimic? Or if they purposely starve themselves, aren't they anorexic? I'm just kind of having some trouble understanding this. There is a risk of staying anorexic or bulimic after doing it for a short while too right?

[Mzor203]

I agree with you on this, if someone wants to be skinny and then starves themselves, they have anorexia. If they want to have it for some reason and then start doing it, it is the same thing. :confused:

[AutumnDae]

That's what I thought too. I didn't know there was a line between having it and don't. If you are starving yourself, or making yourself throw up, then you would have it. You wouldn't want it anymore. I don't think there would be any discussion about this.

[haibekah]

I don't like the term "wannorexic". It puts the people who actually do have eating disorders in a weird place. They then think "Oh if i tell anyone, they're just going to think it's for attention." It's not really fair to those who actually suffer, and to those that are called "wannorexic" have to suffer from too.

Anorexia is anorexia, same with bulimia. There's no inbetween.

[Techno Monster]

I dont think it makes them have a disorder if they are only doing it for a little bit.

[MoveAlong]

I agree with you AutumnDae. cool name btw

[AutumnDae]

Okay, so I just grabbed my Teen Vogue, to see what the article said for the definition of it. "Wannarexia is used to describe he mind frame of teenage girls who use eating-disorder behavior as a way of dieting" I just think that it would be having it, not using it. But, a few sentences later the article also says " While most wannarexics don't fit the medical diagnosis fo anorexia, which is considered a mental illness, experts warn that a compulsion towards anorexic behaviors should be taken seriously."


So, I suppose that it s called wannarexia because they don't fit the medical diagnosis...?

Concerto- thats my actual name btw. First name and middle name :)

[Rutherford The Brave]

Yeah I don't like to listen to people say that they have an eating disorder when they eat just perfectly. Then they go and try to be anerexic and just laugh at it cause it doesn't work. These disorders aren't jokes seriously I've lost some close friends because they were anerexic.

[ScotsGirl]

I think wanting anorexia therefore 'making' yourself do what people with the disease do is different from having the disease and not being able to decide whether to or not.
Anorexia isn't normally a decision.
Whereas someone wanting to be anorexic may decide, "if I was anorexic, then I wouldnt eat lunch or dinner".

I'm not saying that it isn't just as bad as having anorexia, because anyone who thinks like that, is not healthy. But it doesn't make them anorexic, it is a different way of thinking.

xxx

[ShatteredWings]

In an issue of my Teen Vogue, it had an article on Wannarexia. Apparently it is people who aren't anorexic or bulimic, but see it as a way to lose weight. But my question is, if the use it to lose weight, wouldn't they have the disorder? I mean if they make themselves throw up, aren't they bulimic? Or if they purposely starve themselves, aren't they anorexic? I'm just kind of having some trouble understanding this. There is a risk of staying anorexic or bulimic after doing it for a short while too right?

what the f*ck? yea..um..if you have it you have it...there's no such thing as 'wanting' it...there is borderlineing it, but that's unrelated

[ShatteredWings]

I think wanting anorexia therefore 'making' yourself do what people with the disease do is different from having the disease and not being able to decide whether to or not.
Anorexia isn't normally a decision.
Whereas someone wanting to be anorexic may decide, "if I was anorexic, then I wouldnt eat lunch or dinner".

I'm not saying that it isn't just as bad as having anorexia, because anyone who thinks like that, is not healthy. But it doesn't make them anorexic, it is a different way of thinking.

xxx

not nessesarly....most people start out by consiously skipping meals to loose weight, then it gets bad and uncontrolablee

[Axellance]

yeah i would say they are anorexic/bullimic i think th aricle is referring to the fact that they start out differently them most people because alot of people see it as a thing they can controll in there life!!