My best friend irl makes these bracelets, i have one. They are truly beautiful, she belongs to another website, and sells on there, but recently it just got full of trolls and she left and gah has been going downhill and don't get me started. Anywho, she just moved house and wants to join PT, and hopefully advertise her bracelets here, (not why she's joining) She's suffered with anorexia for 7 years.
Here is a photo of my one, which sadly is weathered, the photo just doesn't do it justice.
Her usual ones are in the colour you request with 3 of the same colour beads. ( Usually representing eating disorders, not always)
But anyway, mine has more beads because they represented people in my life i missed.
The 3 she puts on represent different things.
1) Unity, Nobody should suffer in silence, you are not alone. An unspeakable vow between each and every one of us in the same position.
2) Strength, suffering with an ED doesn't make you weak, you're still fighting, and that makes you strong.
3) Happiness, each and every one of us deserves to be happy, no matter what.
As i said, this completely doesn't do it justice, but my new one i lost, and i don't want her to know but hey.
http://i54.tinypic.com/25prfc4_th.jpg
She doesn't sell them to make profit, with help from me she worked out that each one costs £1.60 in english money, obviously, to make. She has paypal and all that shizz, PLEASE don't ask me i am absolutely clueless. And she also does the money sent in an envelope to her address? Because apparently not many people have access to PAYPAL or the like without parental knowledge, anyhow.
she does any colours, and sends you the photo of the exact bracelet because so you see exactly what you're getting.
THIS IS NOT TO ENCOURAGE PRO ANA, BUT AS SUPPORT.
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Update:indeed i do, but that's what it is known as, people don't uderstand what it really is.
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Yea "pro ana" is exactly how it sounds. Its FOR anorexia. The pro ana websites teach you how to be anorexic and how to cover it up and hide it from your family and friends. Unfortunately I know first hand because when I was a teen I used those sites to cover up my anorexia until finally I was 17, weighing in at 82 lbs and dying. My family had to commit me to a facility that helped with various eating disorders.
you do understand that "pro ana" isnt a anorexia support group, but a group encouraging anorexia as an effective way of staying thin, right?
people know what anorexia is...