joy wrote::offtopic: On a side note, Yerba Mate' is an herb that is used in tea form for weight loss. It does have caffeine but also some antioxidants. It is sold in health food stores and is pretty inexpensive. But do a web search on; even natural herbs have side effects.

joy wrote::offtopic: On a side note, Yerba Mate' is an herb that is used in tea form for weight loss. It does have caffeine but also some antioxidants. It is sold in health food stores and is pretty inexpensive. But do a web search on; even natural herbs have side effects.

Nalathni wrote:

Caiyros Damia AKH-ET wrote:

Nalathni wrote:What's really disgusting about this is that they are basically preying on the people who have this condition. Some people out there are probably sick enough to actually pay the $350 for 14 bags of tea! It's very sad.

They are not "sick" They are mentally ill. Most Anorexics are battered children or people now grown up who wer battered children. My stepfather tried to beat me to death and I would not be writing this if my mother hadn't suddenly come home and with carving knife in hand at my stepfather's throat threw him out of the house.....

The original trauma is elaborated into a multiplicity of images that then backfire onto the victim, and then promote the false view (encouraged by society) that by changing your body and mind you will finally be loved and respected by the abuser (now secondarily elaborated into whomever you want to love you and/or respect you)...Saying this is mental illness is correct...but way too often people read the word "sick" as a way that makes the original victim take on even more survivor guilt and desires to eradicate already repressed memories by becoming a new person by tasking all the cr*p of "not being worthy" , turning it into morphic dysphoria, and then slowly methodically destroying the image....and this then is also repressed....a very ugly "HAll of Mirrors" and so on.......

Caiyros

I didn't mean "sick" as in twisted or deranged etc. I meant it as in "ill" and I agree with you, it IS mental illness. I was simply trying to say that I think it's terrible that these people would put up such a listing when there are people out there who have this sort of illness and who could see that and think that by paying some person $350 for tea that it's going to change what they see in the mirror. I understand. I was bulimic when I was younger after years of abuse and I did some desperate things to make the stuff in my head go away. That's all I meant.

Caiyros Damia AKH-ET wrote:We understand each other. I wasn't clearin my post...my fault...I was sure that what you mean't was/is what you say in your latest post, but was concerned that other people might not see it that way. I do freely apologize for not being clear about that. Obviously we have gone done a very similiar path. Best wishes to you, Caiyros

Mongrella wrote:I haven't bought from them & doubt I ever would but I do find their site vastly entertaining in an OTT sort of way. All those 'at home' photos - my dears, just too unutterably camp! :lol:

leigh wrote:Just to let you all know, these people are creeps. I was curious, and since I had a few buck to spare, what the heck.

I got the spell kit to see spirits. Long story short, I contacted them when things weren't working as promised, and they told me that the spirits told them that I didn't do anything and didn't take it seriously, so they weren't going to show themselves to me. After that, I sent several e-mails over the weeks that went completely ignored.

I finally left appropriate negative feedback, and now have been threatened with curses that are supposed to come in the mail any day.

What creeps! :thumbdown: