CallaFirestormBW
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Hi mistoferin,
Thanks for your reply. I'm still not sure what to think about how real this slave is--or even how likely she'd be released from the hospital so easily.
But in answer to your original question, if she's real, I'd say she's getting something out of the relationship. Starvation is a kink. She weighs herself, and takes before and after pictures, and describes her meals. She relishes the attention, her achievement. She seems to be proud of her service. That makes it a form of BDSM, IMO--albeit an extreme one.
It's not so hard to understand how she was released from the hospital. A minor can be committed for treatment for ana/mia at the parents' behest, however, once that person reaches 18 years of age, the only way to keep a person in treatment is to declare them "mentally incompetent" and make them a ward of the state or imprison them. Typically, the first option only happens where there is an interested party both able and willing to go through the extensive legal and psychiatric evaluations required, and who is then willing and able to take responsibility for that person for, essentially, the remainder of hir life. The second option is typically limited to individuals who have broken the law -- and there is no law about starving yourself.
Adults in ana/mia programs have a horrific recidivism rate. I've dealt with this intimately, as I have a family member who has decided that, contrary to earlier decisions, she is not going to have children -- the reason? After 9 months of admissions for ana/mia treatment (yes, she's both -- she both starves and purges), she can't stop herself from going right back into the cycle within a couple of weeks of being on her own again. She's kept up with all 15 of her "classmates" who shared time with her in treatment, and all but 4 of them are now deceased, succumbing to the effects of malnutrition/starvation.
The thing is, even if someone in this situation ended the situation, there is a strong possibility that xhe would continue to practice the ana/mia behaviors, especially without firm direction to reverse the trends. Left without direction, most ana/mias will compensate for their stress/anxiety about their situation by moving even deeper into the control aspects of the ana/mia behaviors. As I mentioned earlier, many of the professionals to whom I refer tend to treat ana/mia behaviors as a life-long pattern similar to the way that OCD impacts life long-term.
I would also concur with porcelaine in that the mindset that allows this kind of behavior to become active has to be in existence in some form up front. Ana/mia is REALLY difficult -- it requires a rigidity of control and persistence in the face of discomfort that can't be done casually... one really does have to become nearly obsessive to be able to manage ana/mia long-term... and it isn't something that someone can -force- on another person unless xhe has the mindset to already be able/willing to go there. It's just too easy, in our world, to find ways to "cheat" if one isn't really fully committed, internally, to the process.
These kinds of situations are sad, but from my perspective, the human right to self-determination of what to do with one's own body, even when it seems foolish or dangerous to me, is paramount. If we give that up in the interests of "protecting people from themselves" we abrogate the actions of free will and control of one's own body -- and that will absolutely come back to bite us in our collective butts.
Calla
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