Members of these communities tend to believe nobody can help them, that the rest of the world doesn’t understand, and that the best thing you can do is learn how to do it cleanly if you are already feeling that way.Ī Practical Guide to Suicide is one infamous document from this community, with a little prefacing encouraging readers to seek medical help if they haven’t already. People, teenagers and adults alike, discuss their suicidal feelings and talk about the best way to get the job done. What you may not know is that these communities do exist. There’s no shortage of crime shows featuring episodes where antagonists manipulated discussions taking place on pro-suicide websites to egg people on to take their own lives. Participants in both communities anthropomorphize the diseases via these shortened names anorexia is sometimes referred to as a girl named Ana, as is bulimia’s Mia. Similarly, communities of bulimia nervosa communities exist, where the term pro-mia is used. For a mild sufferer, this could mean the difference between an early intervention and an accelerated path to the worst possible outcomes. Unfortunately, these communities can make these destructive behaviors worse by validating them and providing a sense of community acceptance. LiveJournal has been somewhat infamous over the years as a home to pro-ana writers and communities, and other social sites such as Twitter have similar communities. Most of us view anorexia nervosa as a mental illness that has devastating physical and psychological effects, but the Internet is home to many communities that celebrate eating disorders – comprised of young women who believe that starving themselves half to death (or to death, as is sometimes the case) is the road to perfection.īlogs with taglines like “Anorexia is a lifestyle, not a disease” and posts titled “70 reasons NOT to eat!” are not difficult to find. Pro-Anorexia Nervosa communities A picture of an early anorexia sufferer from William Gull’s medical papers. Today, we look at ten of the most disturbing communities on the broader web. In an upcoming TNW Magazine piece, we explore a hidden wild west that is home to a range of fringe groups, from (non) nude websites, anarchist political groups to pedophiles.
But there’s a darker side to the Web – communities that range from saddening to sickening, some comprised of troubled souls and others of downright terrible people. The Internet has made so many parts of our lives easier, from commerce to communication, created countless jobs and revolutionized communication and the media.
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