Support
This blog web site was created in support of those individuals who are experiencing self-harming compulsions in order that they might be able to understand what these compulsions are about. Entrenched anorexia nervosa cannot be cured without this understanding. Yet, the psychological authorities are not interested in helping an anorexic understand the underlying nature of her malady. They are only interested in finding ways to make the anorexic give up her quest for understanding and, instead, conform to the acceptable belief system.
Merely suggesting that anorexia nervosa might possess a positive meaning is considered to be an unspeakable heresy to the authorities. This refusal to help anorexics to understand the enigmatic meaning of their quest has resulted in some frustrated anorexics creating pro-anorexic web sites. Anorexics have a legitimate conviction that suggests that their quest has a meaning that needs to be understood. However, these pro-anorexic web sites only windup becoming a potentially deadly exercise in irony because of the impossibility of an anorexic understanding the meaning and purpose behind her malady without some outside help.
You can post comments on this web site that express how you feel about things that might not be understood elsewhere. For example many people who are anorexic have an uncanny feeling that their condition possesses a positive meaning and purpose but the psychological authority discourages any understanding of these feelings. Therapists may be skilled professionals at expressing compassion for your feelings, but definitely not any sincere understanding because they are not taught genuine understanding. Professional therapists are taught theories that are nothing more than canned explanations that dictate how things should be understood.
Unfortunately, the psychic factor that causes anorectic symptoms tailors the symptoms to conform to the attitudes of our culture, which is a culture that refuses to understand psychic reality. Consequently, the nature of the symptoms is hidden behind vague symbolism and maddening riddles, so the actual meaning becomes next to impossible to understand.
This web site gives positive support for understanding the meaning behind compulsive disorders like cutting and eating disorders because this is the only way to cure the destructive aspects of the psychic process without belittling a patient’s quest for understanding. The psychic process behind eating disorders became destructive in consequence of not understanding what it is or how to deal with it. Anorexia nervosa is difficult to cure because the individual cannot consciously direct the psychic process so long as she does not consciously understand what it is actually about.