Hello,

My name is Sarah and I would like to take a moment to explain what this petition is about. It is a topic that effects me greatly, and if you have a heart, you will want to do something about it too.

For many of you, you will have been fortunate enough throughout your life as to not have come across the website I am about to tell you about. And for those of you that have, I am deeply sorry that nothing has been done about it yet. 

MyProAna.com is one of the biggest pro-ed websites that exists on the internet- it has thousands upon thousands of members, all of whom either suffer from an Eating Disorder, or are seeking to develop one. Yes, there are people who want to develop one. And this website gives them the tools to do that. 

It claims to be a pro-recovery site, however, just one minute spent on that page will convince you otherwise. Threads about "thinspiration", "how to loose weight", and competitions on weight loss are evidently strewn across the website, and take up the majority of its content. 

Rather then providing people with the resources to recover, it provides people with the resources to get worse, in an exceptionally competitive and body-shaming environment, and IT NEEDS TO STOP!

This could be anyone... for all you know, your children, siblings, anyone you love and care about, could be on this website, right now. Not through any fault of their own, but because that's what Eating Disorders do- the disease doesn't want you to get better, it wants you dead, and unless intervention is provided, it will succeed.

Sign my Petition, and lets get this website shut down, once and for all.

For those of you suffering from an ED, you will get better, I PROMISE! There is a light at the end of the tunnel, believe me. You have nothing to be ashamed of, at all, and you have the right to receive help. 

Some of you may be asking "well, why on earth do you care? How are you going to benefit in any way from this petition?", and, well, for the sake of this petition, I am more than happy to answer that. 

A while ago, I myself was diagnosed with an eating disorder known as Anorexia Nervosa... I was very underweight, and I was close to hospitalisation. I fell behind on my coursework, had to quit my job, was forbidden from attending college, and it had a huge strain on my ex-relationship, not to mention the horror it put my family through. I stumbled across this website whilst trying to look for recovery websites, and at the time, I did not understand what the euphemism "Ana" meant. It had a hugely detrimental effect on my motivation to recover, and for a while, after seeing this content, I didn't want to get better. 

It took me another 2 months to regain this motivation to kick my ED to the ground. I am now happy to say I am officially one month clean of ED behaviours, through the wonderful support of my family and the Eating Disorder Team at CAMHS, and I am catching back up with my coursework, and am happily reinstalled at college.  YOU CAN TOO!!! 

Some useful websites to help kick-start your recovery...

0- https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

0-https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk

0-https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com

Best wishes to you all.