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How old were you when Ana (or Mia) became your friend?

by angelique on June 8th, 2008

I didn’t become anorexic until 13.  Up until then, I was chubby and felt uncomfortable in my own skin, but I never considered starving myself to achieve a sense of happiness.

I’m curious, though — when did you first become intimately aquainted with Ana (or Mia)?

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4 opinions for How old were you when Ana (or Mia) became your friend?

  • gagravarr
    Jun 8, 2008 at 11:40 am

    i think about 12 or 13. i didn’t know what i was doing though, hadn’t heard of eating disorders, had no idea that calories existed, and it certainly didn’t find me happiness. it took about two years (yes, call me naive) before i realised what was going on - but by then, it was like we had fused identities. we weren’t just intimate - we were the one person.

  • angelique
    Jun 8, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Gagravarr:

    That’s such a good way to describe being “friends” with Ana/Mia. It is like you just become one entity, isn’t it? No wonder it’s tough to separate later.

  • Lulabelle
    Jun 9, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    I was also 12. It made me feel like I had some sort of power over what was happening to me. “They can do this and this, but they can’t make me eat. I can be thin, and then everyone will love me”

    I have to talk myself out of this behavior almost every day, 20 years later.

  • Cate
    Oct 15, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    I was 12 too. At the time I started doing it because I was fat, then I started doing cicles of binging and purging. Now, four years later, I’m also restricting, fasting and found lax…

    gagravarr - I was just like you, at first I didn’t realiase what I was doing for about a year…

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