Ana and mia
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This document discusses eating disorders and the language used by those suffering from them. It defines "Ana" as referring to anorexia and "Mia" as referring to bulimia. Those with eating disorders seek perfection and control through their disorder and have developed codes and rules around restricting food intake and purging behaviors. They may call each other terms like "angel" or "princess" and use phrases that promote thinness as the ultimate goal. Specific diets are outlined that involve severely limiting calories over a period of days or not eating at all. The disorders are portrayed as sitting in a kitchen alongside other mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and self-harm that the sufferer is struggling with.
Ana and mia
- 1. Ana & MiaDaniela Sousa nº9 11ºE
- 2. What does Ana & Mia mean ? Ana is the short word for Anorexia and Mia is the short word for Bulimia. These nicknames are a way to represent eating disorders and to make it easier for people, most of them teenagers, to talk openly about them. « Nothing taste as good as skinny feels »
- 3. Why they do that There is just one word to explain that : P-E-R-F-E-C-T They live with those eating disorders as a lifestyle and they don’t care if they have them , they just want to be perfect . « eat to live, don't live to eat »
- 4. How to recognize them
- 5. Who they want to be « Bones define who we really are! Let them show! »
- 6. The rules 1. Eat only what you need 2. At all cost hide this lifestyle 3. Keep going until Ana/Mia is happy with you!
- 7. Language ED – Eating Disorders LF – Low Food CLF – Colective Low Food NF – No food CNF – Colective No Food Compulsion – Ate a “lot” Control – What they want to be Meow – Vomit Angel , Child , Princess , Butterfly – How they call each other « Hunger is a feeling thin is a art »
- 8. What they “eat” « Thin is perfection, I'll die trying to achieve it! »
- 9. One of their DIETS 1: 500 calories(or less) 2: 500 calories(or less) 3: 300 calories 4: NF 5: 100 calories 6: 200 calories 7: 300 calories 8: NF 9: 500 calories 10:200 calories 11: 150 calories 12: NF 13: 400 calories 14: 350 calories 15: 250 calories 16:NF
- 10. When , why , how they leave
- 11. In the corner, sitting on the kitchen counter is depression. Beside the depression is anorexia bones. Sitting at the table with pills in hand and crying is anxiety. In the refrigerator is bulimia, something like choking on vomit food before, and self-injury-cuts-whispering, urging her to cut, and the teenager falling in all of them, look at his face, it’s like a mixture of all disorders. The eyes and the smiles of self-injury, depression and anorexia are scary, are as creepy.
- 12. STOP ANA AND MIA, NOW !