Family United Against Anorexia - Inside Story - Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- Inside Story - S03 E05
Meet Amy, an 18-year-old fighting anorexia with her family's unwavering support. This video dives deep into her personal struggles with mental health, showcasing the powerful role of family in the journey towards recovery. A story of resilience and hope.
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This was pre-2016. She's now recovered and expecting a baby with her fiance.
Really? 🥹
Where did you see this?
Great, a baby with anorexia. Do these people ever think about what their decisions may mean?
Thanks for the great update! 💙🌷
@@davidgray1515That’s not how it works David. It’s a shame the first thought you have of someone’s recovery is to shame them. I hope you grow and become a better person.
She has OCD and she needs control. The anorexia is an obsession and it’s how her OCD is manifesting. This isn’t the case in all anorexia but in hers it is. Treat the OCD, positive affirmation, restrict internet access completely. Evey pound gained gets a reward. I used to weight 73 pounds. Nothing worked. Until a doctor treated my OCD. I’m 48, weight 120 pounds and have for decades.
Thats exactly what I was just about to comment.....it screams OCD, so many traits, I'm 44 and have suffered from OCD in the most horrendous ways since 5 years old and although I got treated, the OCD just manifests into different ways, changes, evolves......it comes back in 'different clothing' ..... a brain addiction, the worst form of addiction ❤
Exactly
I’ve always wondered this when people obsess over the routine of it because i’ve had anorexia but I never timed when or what i’ll eat etc, I just restricted
Exactly. Anorexia is very much related to OCD.
It's not about food in the first place.
There are so many varieties of OCD and Anorexia is one of them.
This is not an uncommon presentation of anorexia nervosa / OCD. I struggled with the same thing. Now fully recovered from the anorexia. I've had OCD all my life (earliest memory of OCD at 3 years old). So I think I may always struggle with OCD tendencies at least. But it too is loads better today. Prozac was essential to recover from anorexia. That and Intensive therapy, primarily DBT.
I wouldn't have the patience to deal with a family member like this, well done Mum.
So pleased to see from SM that she is now well, happy & pregnant ❤
So sad because this illness is destroying her family not just her
Big love to Amy. You got this girl. And your smile shines so bright!
I have struggled with anorexia because someone I deeply love horrifically abused me for over a decade. I'm so sorry for anyone who suffers with ED's. I just stop feeling hungry for days. Nothing fixes it. It's been many years.
Start going to the gym, you should feel hungry after training, if not push yourself to eat after training, you will feel better in yourself.
@@FDCLDNYou really just told an anorexic to exercise? 🤦🏻♀️ You can’t build muscle without calories & protein. Anorexics are already breaking down muscle for survival. The heart is a muscle & they are at risk. Not to mention exercise being another way to waste calories. I know you mean well, but your advice is potentially lethal without medical supervision. Same with refeeding syndrome.
Sending you strength and inner peace. You can do it!
@@FDCLDNThat's the most ridiculous advice I’ve ever heard. Working out could literally unalive someone with anorexia.
@@FDCLDNWhat ridiculous advice! How can you presume to give advice to someone with a condition that you, clearly, have no knowledge of? Anorexics already exercise to excess. They burn off every calorie they ingest, damaging and destroying every muscle. Including the HEART!! They will starve , and exercise, themselves to death. Literally !!!
I'm in treatment now with a whole team of especialists and it's so hard to get well and leave it all behind. Been struggling for 14 years now, on and off.
I really hope I can be at peace with my mind and eyes someday. Sending love and light to everybody struggling and their families.💜🌹💕
never give up.
Proud of you keep fighting wish u the best in the world
I've never seen a documentary about an anorectic who lives alone. It's always "me, my illness and my team".
These parents are very loving and kind. They have an understanding that is beautiful to see. Plus with mum’s history she knows what is like. I too suffered from an eating disorder and was hospitalized. They may already know this but another part of anorexia is not wanting to grow up. They may already be doing it but it’s her recovery and the more they can step away from the “disorder”, not their daughter the better. I wish this beautiful family nothing but healing prayers.🙏🏻💜
my daughter has had anorexia for 24yrs now. She never weights more than 28kg, She is now 43.Her lowest weight 22kgs. Which she has been to many times. We have done just bout everything we don't know where to turn anymore. There's doctors wont see her. We live in south Africa. there re no rehab's for just eating disorders. Its so hard because after so long her cognitive thinking etc no longer works. Her bones are like a 85yr old women. Her friends have left because of what this has done to her children. She is now divorced and her children re now in the uk. I don't know what to do .
I'm sorry but yes it is a killer sickness and don't give up check and around for a inpatient place to put her . And groups for her to attend constantly. Inevitably we cannot make ppl do anything but you can try and see if she will because one day her heart will give out it can't handle starving constantly and for it's entire life . What a nasty disaster this disease is and pointless but they don't understand and the more there body is starved the more the brain goes into saying no more food . Sheesh I hope and pray she gets help and stops obsessing over food !! ❤ Also let yourself off the hook it isn't your fault mom .
I also live in South Africa, and I also had anorexia. This illness is so horrible, but there is hope and I really hope that your daughter will see that. You're an amazing mom and this isn't your fault. I hope things look up for you.
Praying for that twisted weight obsession in Jesus name and be replace by healthy body and graceful motherhood and wife. amen
@@Julia-vt5li Since you also live in South Africa, do you have any suggestions for @michelleswanepoel9649 on where she might turn for resources to help her daughter or herself? How did you get your anorexia under control? I'm not suggesting you can save her or anything, of course not, but perhaps you could suggest something that she doesn't know?? Just a thought...She sounds like she can use any and all the help she can get...
I’m so sorry 💔
Amy, you seem like a very tender and caring person, I'm sending you hugs and luv from BC Canada. I needed a lot of mental help for depression and ocd in my twenties. I never thought I'd ever get any better but I slowly did! I'm now 50 and am and have been happy and in control for about 25 years. There is so much hope and goodness and happiness in the world and it's important to me that you're in it Till you're a cute little ol lady!! 😄😄
Great job overcoming adversity. Very inspiring 🙂
This hits really close to home for me as I had anorexia as a teenager due to being fat shamed and horrifically bullied by a few students but it was obvious they had anger issues themselves because one kid was violent and use to frighten others it made me livid that teachers used to make excuses and keep them in the school because they were just awful and dangerous to people and its always people that are nice and quiet that are targets for these nutters ugh and they don’t realise the damage it can do to you this is a awful consequence be careful what you say to somebody 😤 😔😔
You are the bravest telling others with your difficult story Amy ! Helping many 😮I am sure .
Some of this story could have been mine. And my name is the same. Always being a little different, not really knowing a life without an ED, bullying, not liking food much even as a baby…I’m in Canada, and it took a lot of trial and error to get appropriate help, but it is now almost 5 years since I left for out of province treatment and I am still in recovery. It isn’t always easy, but life without it is better.
I'm very sorry for anyone who gos though this
How wonderful to see all the support she has ❤ I wish her well
It's so annoying to read all the comments telling anorexic people to just eat. It's so on point to compare to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, you don't tell a person with schizophrenia to just stop hallucinating 🤦🏽♀️
I cant see any??? There are only 18 comments and none of them say that 🙄
I live with schizophrenia so I can relate, I know! 🤔
This comparison makes no sense. The absence or presence of hallucinations will not cause us to starve to death.
I have had ED, and that is a ridiculous comparison, of ED's to schizophrenia and bipolar illness. The latter two are mental illnesses stemming from chemical imbalances in the body and brain. ED's are psychological disorders, disordered thinking, that derives from the insecurities and immaturities of adolescence. ED's are psychological; schizophrenia and bipolar disease are actual mental illnesses.
No.. those are helped with meds..
Anorexia is helped with therapy and eating ..
So ya.. they gotta eat.. there is no other solution ..
Hope Amy beats the anorexia!❤
You are so lucky to have had the support of your family. Mine were ashamed of my anorexia and never got me the treatment I needed so 30 years later I am still fighting the anorexia, but it has won.
Don’t give up! Seek help- therapy has come a long way. You are worthy, just because you exist. ❤🙏🏼
@@JenniferKitchens123 After 25 years of therapy, all that has happened is I havemade the shrink rich.
I agree OCD.
I had a neighbor who happened to be named Amy. She suffered from anorexia back in the 1980s. There wasn’t a lot of knowledge back then.
Please, please please get better, for the sake of your family and yourself. Your family is going through a lot of hurt, don’t hurt them anymore. Just get your healthy body back again. Please
My anorexia started when I was 14. Had disordered eating all through my teens, some in my 20's, some in my 30's and it practically vanished in my 40's and 50's. I am now 63 years old and 2 years ago I began starving myself again. Went from 157 lbs down to 98 lbs in a little less than a year.
What happened?
Your beautiful Amy, Wish there was a pill to fix it all..
She would refuse to eat it.😮😢
I'm overweight and POSSIBLY a binge-eater so I can SOMEWHAT relate! 🤔🥺
No, you really can't. It's similar, but it is NOT the same experience of illness
@@lydiaj7492that’s why they said somewhat
All the females in the family suffer from non classical anorexia and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Praying for the 🌎.
I always found it interesting that ppl suffering from ED's tend to enjoy cooking for others. I imagine that it has a lot to do with the obsession around food.
controlling food without eating it
If only All addicts were treated with the compassion these people enjoy. While some addictions are criminalized, the symptoms of this addiction are not met with criminal prosecution. If this addiction were similarly criminalized, prisons would be overflowing with patients. Instead, these addicts receive care, while other addicts receive cages. Why not use the exact same approach? “Tough Love” (total abandonment of family and resources) is the norm for addicts. Why not these ones? Why is this family not encouraged to “Make her hit rock bottom” and “stop enabling her” with a home and love??
Have you seen the show Intervention? Unfortunately in the eating disorder episodes, they do make similar threats to the sick loved ones.
1. Food isn’t an illegal substance.
2. A drug addict craves more of their drug, an anorexic already denies themselves.
3. Anorexics don’t steal to feed their habit
4. Many years of research has shown different methods are needed for different addictions and mental illnesses.
Both addicts and anorexics need inpatient care. Trying to stop any of them from killing’s themselves is very difficult.
When l was a teen l looked anorexic. However, l wasn't eating much due to depression and poverty. I am too heavy 2: now which can be hard to manage
Having an illness that everyone focuses on constantly, must be so difficult, but they always seem very immature in how they interact with family members.
One year ago today, my daughter was on a waitlist to go to a residential facility for bulimia/anorexia. She weighed under 100lbs and 5'5" tall. Yes, I did see the weight loss. At first, I thought it was because she was more active and ate differently. But as her illness became more, her weight dropped almost dramatically. We would see her eat, but of course, she was purging it up. That is what we never caught. Until finally, she was confronted at school by her friends and who also went and told her counselor. The counselor gave her an ultimatum that either she confess to us, or we would get a call from the school. I was devastated. I felt horrible that I didn't demand she tell me what was going on before instead of trying to cajole it out of her nicely. For six months she was in treatment. She is still in therapy and still slips up purging, but her weight is normal again. I still keep tabs on her eating and continue to make her meals. But she still battles this daily. I never thought I would experience this as a mother, as diet was never part of my vocabulary or even looks either. But it's hard to break free from. Some of the girls she was in residential with, went back because they couldn't over come it. It's hard to understand why they just can't eat, but there is definitely something in their brain that causes this. And the more they with hold food, the sicker their brain becomes. I worry for her in the future, but I hope she has the tools to try to overcome it now. My heart breaks for those going through this. What I saw at the facility is not just teen girls. There were boys, grown adults, elderly, etc. It's a very sad situation.
Watching this in 2024 ...Amy looks great and had a baby boy.
I wanna know what was her childhood like?
Life is full of pain
So not eating is actually a symptom not the disorder.
This is a genuine question. What do people with anorexia think when they’re standing next to someone who is actually fat?
It depends on the individual
They're completely focused on themselves. They're not thinking of the other person or comparing themselves to the other person.
When I was at my worst, I felt proud. I have control, you havn't
What I have noticed is that Amy is a very sensitive person. She has compassion for animals - she doesn't want to hurt them, so she doesn't want them to be killed to be eaten. Amy would benefit greatly from a vegan diet. That suits her sensitive soul.
I've been interested in learning of this disorder for a long time and I've never seen a video, read an article or seen an interview describing how anorexia is really defined. I'm kinda confused.
Use google. This disease has been written about extensively.
You are not your thoughts🙏
My great-aunt started off being anorexia at age 17 after her mother kept telling her she was "gross and fat" which was why her boyfriend kept leaving her. Years later now married to the boyfriend her father passed then she switched from anorexia to bulimia. She's been bulimic since, now she's 76. In all those years she never even as much caught a cold as working long hours as a high school teacher and lots of after school participation. Three years ago she became very ill, she had to have her stomach removed. Three years since and no stomach she still feels huge. She has always looked like a skeleton with a thin sheet over her and 20 yrs older than her real age. Now she looks like death. But she keeps living her life believing she's morbidly obese. BTW. She was never ever even slightly overweight, her mother was just cruel. After she became anoxic/bulimic her mother seemed pleased.
It’s a miracle that she has lived to 76 years. So many anorexic women migrate to life long bulimia
Is she still alive?
These comments are disturbing
Because of my weird schedule, I eat my last meal at 8:00 am and I'm hungry the rest of the day. Don't these people feel hunger?
Honestly, after the first week or two of severely restricting/fasting... no, you don't really notice the hunger as much. Also, filling up with water/coffee/tea helps to keep you feeling comfortable. I've dealt with disordered eating on and off for 20 years (as a result of anxiety/OCD). It truly is addictive for people who crave control, with the irony being that it gets to the point where the disorder is controlling you.
It’s such a selfish self centred disease
When my anxiety was severe and uncontrolled I had absolutely zero appetite (and I’m a big eater normally!) - I can only imagine the distress and mental state that someone in the depths of an eating disorder feels 💔
I think they’ve learned to ignore it or not notice it just like when people struggle to identify when they’re full.
Your stomach stops growling after about 2 weeks or so :/
I ruined my relationship with food. I used to really love and truly enjoy food and trying everything and anything. I feel as though my ED changed my tastebuds forever. I never got severe in my opinion, and I’m healthy now. But I really miss loving food and the way food used to taste and make me feel 💔
I dunno but I see her spine that's enough.
Hold up I believe America supports this lifestyle I see a RUclipsr named Eugenia looking like a bag of bones having a grand ole time making money lots of supporters and monetary support from companies!
So hey it's working for some of them
she has her dads pretty eyes
I overcame my anorexia years ago with a combo of Homeopathic natural medicine and Youngevity (top quality )vitamins ( also natural foods as unnatural dyes and additives like hydrogenated oils can cause problems)
You sound orthorexic
My maiden name is the same of hers.
Oh, my darling. You are so much more than your disease. I have bipolar disease two and we have to understand these as diseases because otherwise people don’t understand what they are. As someone who suffers, I understand what you may feel. Fight. Love. We can and will live the beauty we see. I have seven cats! One sweet pea Pitt Bull and three utterly incorrigible chickens! I have to get up and are there for them. Get a pet baby, you would be amazed.😌
her sister is fit
tube feed her if she keeps refusing to eat. Why are you allowing her to starve herself?
You can’t just force feed someone like that. Especially if she’s already an adult. Force feeding also tends to be traumatic. Just because you get them tube fed and back to a healthy weight doesn’t mean they are cured. Tube feeding unfortunately isn’t a cure. Like with other mental illnesses the person has to be willing to help themselves. Like the saying goes, you can’t help someone who is not willing to help themselves. One tragic example was the young woman named Emma from the documentary “Emma wants to live”. She had life long treatment which included multiple tube feedings. It didn’t work. So saying stuff like “just eat” or “just tube feed them” isn’t helpful at all. It’s the equivalent of telling someone with major depressive disorder to just “cheer up”. At least from my understanding.
I think it’s counterproductive to force feed. Of course it might temporarily keep the person from dying of heart failure.
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I've always wondered what makes anorexic people so self centered.
Are you deaf?
okay so like what about u watch the video?
There are so many unkind individuals that seem to overestimate their own intelligence (as demonstrated in this comment section)
She can look herself at mirror right
It’s almost like you paid zero attention to this video. Anorexia is a mental health disorder and part of that is body dysmorphia where they don’t see just how thin they are but rather they see a fat person looking back at them.
You can look at a book, but not be able to actually read it, right? Can you magically make yourself NOT illiterate, since I'm telling you that you need to read a book?
She can- but it’s not what she sees - that’s why it’s called dysmorphia.
Not everyone with anorexia has body dysmorphia. Many people with anorexia know exactly how thin they are and they like being that thin
@@carollyntright, but a distorted perception of self image and body size, as well as denial of body size / thinness, are symptoms of anorexia nervosa listed in the diagnostic criteria (not in those exact words, paraphrasing). So it's quite common. But yeah, not all have body dysmorphic disorder.
I knew I was very thin when I was ill, but I'd like hyper focus on a pinch of 'fat' on my thigh. Zone in on little 'imperfections' like that. Presentation can vary.
She was pregnant in March.. I wonder if she lost the baby and it sent her on a downward spiral..?
this documentary was made in 2016 when she was 18
Wonder if part of the ED is an extreme form of attention-seeking. Sometimes emotionally needy people will self-harm to monopolize everyone's attention.
No. Generally anorexics work very hard to hid their eating disorder and their weight loss. It is absolutely NOT about attention seeking.
No
Repetitive and superficial.
Idk, but I think a minimum wage job and a handful of bills might be the cure.
U might actually be right
It seems a bit savage to say but true ..she spoke to her mum like a spoilt brat...
Who else is here just to trigger themselves? I just relapsed. My lowest weight is 110 lbs but my goal is 90. I haven't been 90lbs since I was 10 years old I'm 21 now..
Sending love 🫂💕 I can relate to some of your feelings. I hope you find happiness and internal peace.
You have to understand that you will eventually be in extreme and unrelenting pain due to bone loss.
@@carollynt so..
Please don't go down this road. I'm sure there are people in your life who would be devastated to lose you. I'm sad thinking about it even though of course we don't know each other.
@@asdkrasere23 i don't care about them 😒
I find the nose ring disgusting.
Yes, and the ear spacers too.
lol ok?
Mutilating body parts is another extension of this disease. Cutting is also associated with anorexia.
@@carollynt Yes, but I never thought it extended to nose rings. You raise a valid point it falling under self mutilation.
I find your comment disgusting, frankly.
Anorexia is just as dangerous as obesity. I wish obesity was not so glorified. Both addictions are extremely dangerous.
So what aren’t people affirming her? It’s the same as trans gender people and we affirm them.
Are you saying that anorexia is the same as transgender?! 🙀
It's not the same at all. Stop using ridiculous analogies to justify your hatred
@@zom6ie hatred of what? What I said is fact.
@@princessfunkytown6459 It's not a fact 😂 You don't understand anorexia and you certainly don't understand transgender people
She's a little too old to have her mommy fix her meals...
😢If you're sick, doesn’t it help to have someone make you a meal? She's fighting for her life, her mother loves her & wants to help. Nothing wrong with that.
Feels like they never let her grow up
@@buukaczishe would literally not make herself food and die if they didn’t?
@@buukaczitime to just admit buukaczi that you’re incredibly ignorant about eating disorders so you can stop sounding rude and condescending to someone with the deadliest mental illness.
@buukaczi Ok. You need to keep in mind that this is a mental illness…..she’s not being childish. Her brain is literally sick! Have a little empathy for crying out loud. 😒😒😒
Looking a little heavy.
nice comment… why?
Did you not watch the documentary? It's not a joke. A comment like that can put an anorexic into a tailspin; your comments can be killer, literally! You're sick. If it were my channel, you'd be banned.
Is that you, Satan?
What a foul, disgusting comment. You're obviously an evil person....
Are you? Don’t worry about it too much.
It's such a cruel and all-consuming illness, I've been in recovery for a year now, and I still struggle. Amy seems like a sweet girl, wishing her to be free from this someday ❤🩹
Haye don't listen to the bullys sweetheart,you a gorgeous lady and your love from your family and true friends shud be all you need ,it's hard but tell yourself over and over ,I don't want to be like this you will keep going until you have won the battle,I really hope you fight this ,🫂💯💫💞🙏