THIN promo
“A cinema verité documentary that takes us inside the walls of Renfrew, a clinic in southern Florida that specializes in the treatment of eating disorders. Renowned documentary photographer Lauren Greenfield makes her directorial debut with this film and chronicles the treatment of four women as they struggle to overcome an illness that has consumed their lives. With breathtaking style and remarkable intimacy, Greenfield interweaves both the physical and emotional ramifications of this complicated disease and the stories of the brave wounded women on this arduous journey to recovery.” THIN premieres Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 9PM EST on HBO.
May 5th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
like a wall felt down on me at 6;20 till 6:50(u)
May 5th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
fuck these people are weird
May 5th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
@GothEmoWC I don’t think that there is anything wrong with only treating women at the renfrew center. There are plenty of eating disorder clinics in the world that treat men. Wanting to focus on just women is ok and it probably makes the patients feel a lot safer (no offense). Please do not feel that the renfrew center isn’t a good place just because they only treat women. Just because they don’t treat men it doesn’t mean they think they can’t have ED’s.
May 5th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
@GothEmoWC I agree with you. I think a lot of these places are insane. I hope you are getting the help u deserve. Plus, this place looks like a darn joke. Making the girls eat a whole fucking cupcake. I mean really?
May 5th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
i’m not that type of person who makes comments about girls being really skiny especially models but damn’ 0:50 i have no words ,so sad and yet she’s not even a model,i’m saying that just beacuse for instance many people i know usually associate anorexia only with models saying that they are stupid for not eating etc. which is stupid,people who have eating disorder are mostly judged however people who have other problems such as being overwieght are not
May 5th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
everytime i see this documental i remember when i was sick and when i went to a clinic too. all the girls were amazing. we support echother all the time. i made good friends after that.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Thank you. To be fair though, they were polite over the phone… I joke with my parents how I’d like to start a center that deals with male eating disorders and I’d call it the “Menfrew Center.” So, since I haven’t been helped with my problem, I’m still bulimic, but its every few days now and might go away on its own. Thanks for your input
May 5th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
@TeaPartyParade The nurses don’t control who gets kicked out because of insurance. The hospital does. It is a money-making business and the insurance companies are truly the ones to blame.
May 6th, 2010 at 12:13 am
@GothEmoWC …..they wouldn’t let you in? That is horrible, I am so sorry, that is fucked up.
May 6th, 2010 at 12:49 am
I am really appalled by Renfrew. After watching this documentary, I am disgusted by the place. The nurses, so called “specialists”, and therapists are only after one thing. Money. They made two girls who clearly were not ready to be out on their own leave because one “was a horrible influence” and the other girl’s insurance ran out. It seems like the workers there do nothing but belittle the girls and make them feel awful. I did not see one time where they actually helped. The place is pathetic.
May 6th, 2010 at 1:30 am
I recently contacted “The Renfrew Center,” in Wilton, CT because I’m a 22 year old male suffering from bulimia. And I was “utterly shocked,” when they told me that I wasn’t someone they could help and verbally implied that only women were welcome at the center. Its important for people to know this and to help identify “male eating disorders,” as a evident problem in today’s society.
May 6th, 2010 at 1:41 am
i heard a different statistic from what the director says and 50 % is certainly an untrue estimate of those who really do recover from anorexia, no? I feel like on the internet there are people who obsess over the disorder and romanticize it with statements like “Ana is always with you”, which may be true to an extent but i heard that it was 8 out of 10 that recover..50 % would be 5 of 10.
May 6th, 2010 at 2:27 am
every one out their struggling from an eating disorder!! and i mean a real eating disorder! not one of those attenting getting ones! listen to me CAREFULLY!! if you are finnaly considering getting help! im so glad, and applaud you on your strength and realizing you need help to fight this evil horrible disease, but DO NOT go to renfrew!!!!! its a sadistic evil place not interested in helping you, and only wanting to turn a profit! there are sooo many places you can go, please do not go there!!!
May 6th, 2010 at 3:02 am
@mellowmushgrapetripp ps i love to take psilocybin msuhrooms and lsd HAHAH
May 6th, 2010 at 3:12 am
@alwaysUmpteen
well whos control is it out of you and i never controled it in the first place so what does it matter.
no one is in controle
the cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation. your punishing yourself if you feel to conform to a bankrupt culture runed by wiskey drinking assholes inform yourself and set aside and see for yourself the illusion of the society liberate yourself from the illusion of culture take resonsibility for what you do and wat u think
May 6th, 2010 at 3:28 am
@mellowmushgrapetripp
It has nothing to do with making people like yo. nothing to do with looking “sexy”.
nothing to do with getting guys.
It’s punishment. It’s control. If we wanted to just lose weight, we wouldn’t kill ourselves in the process.
May 6th, 2010 at 3:46 am
Yes it would implicate the notion toward an unhumanistic experience. Anorexia is a mental disorder and many have the need to feel un-needy and not as a slave to their own body. In order to achieve ‘perfection’, it is the same as striving to get as close to inhumanity as possible, because humans are not perfect. In this very book (Thin) it is said by a girl that she believes the perfect anorexic is dead. This is rather realistic because dead would be the closest thing to inhumanity.
May 6th, 2010 at 4:01 am
well wouldnt that emplicat the notion toward an unhumanistic experience (sex, perception of ones self and others) and overview of life, if i am not correct we are human so i was just emplying certain details of human information processing i think what video your looking for is more of a religious conquest on how to dehumanize yourself into bizare fedism taugh and preached by the disrupted hormonal and nerological.
May 6th, 2010 at 4:18 am
maybe some don’t want to be checked out by nasty pigs on the street. maybe if they get thin enough they won’t have to worry about nasty freaks staring at them and thinking nothing but sex
May 6th, 2010 at 5:15 am
while me being a guy id have to say the girls who do not eat just for looks are actualy a BIG TIME turn off i mean common we all know the media is full of shit they are fake and in ten years will look like a dryed up resin eat healthy eat right foods men love curves and well i dont have to explain ahah no flat chest thank you common its not hard to understand and if ur gaining to much weight then well your not eating healthy ITS CALLED FRUIT!
May 6th, 2010 at 5:54 am
Ha… @ 5:45 she says “you can get better” but that means you get fat again. I know because I’m her. Now that I’m “better” I’m bigger and still not happy.
May 6th, 2010 at 6:10 am
but 8 months ago when i wrote this, i was denying it. so sorry for all the russle it coused..
May 6th, 2010 at 6:33 am
no i wasn’t looking for sympthy. i know how they all feel with suffering for 3-4 years now. im trying to recover and nothing has worked i recoverd once but got sucked in again, im trying to beak through i over came bulimia (mostly) again, but im falling behind again, and im afraid i will never beat this.
May 6th, 2010 at 6:56 am
The point of doing the practice foods is to show the patients that it’s okay to eat junk food. We refuse to eat it because we’re punishing ourselves. They don’t feed patients sugary foods to be mean and promote unhealthy eating, they’re trying to show that normal people enjoy this stuff and it’s okay to allow yourself to have it.
It actually helps a few times after doing it. You learn to love food again.
May 6th, 2010 at 7:24 am
I’m 110 lbs and 5’3 ft, and I’m really happy with myself, even when I’m not skynny, I’m just normal