Sort of Sick

Lately I've been wasting a lot of time browsing these Xanga blogrings I found of people with anorexia. It's really creepy--these girls set these up for "ana" (anorexic) or "mia" (bulimic) people and they all talk about how little they ate and how their moms tried to force them to eat and how they're lying at therapy about eating! And then they all post helpful comments like "Stick in there and fast a few more days, hun, you'll get under 100!" (lbs). It's pretty terrible, the way they give each other "tips" for fasting and getting out of eating ("forget" your lunch money every day so you have an excuse for not eating with your friends??!? Putting a cup under the table between your legs and slipping your dinner into it so your parents think you're eating?!?!?). And they all have these pictures of the Olsen twins and Nicole Richie plastered all over them, as "thinspiration"!! These girls IDOLIZE Mary Kate Olsen for "achieving" anorexia, even though she admitted herself that she had a problem and was hospitalized for it! I don't even know why I want to read these things, only I feel like there's something that someone should be doing about them. I mean, if only these people's parents could read the messed up crap they write about... They could send them to the psych lockdown unit at the hospital and force feed them Ensure.