I’ve written articles about preventing Bulimia in an individual in the first place. But for those of you that are already deeply plagued by it, that doesn’t do a whole lot of good. Of course, therapy is your best bet for treating Bulimia, as scary and as revealing as that may sound to you. Unfortunately, ...
Bulimia affects different organs. And the longer you have bulimia the more organs get affected and damaged. The organs that suffer the most are: heart, kidney, brain, digestive system, bones, skin and endocrine glands. The heart gets damaged from the constant electrolyte imbalances caused by continuous purging and becomes weaker the longer the bulimia continues. ...
In some ways, bulimia is worse than alcoholism. Alcoholics can live without their drug of choice, while bulimics can’t. Would any counselor recommend that an alcoholic go to a bar three times a day and stop by a liquor store for a “snack” between their second and third visits? Essentially, this schedule faces the recovering ...
People often ask me to describe what a day in the life of an anorexic-bulimic sufferer is really like. How do people become eating disorder sufferers and what do sufferers themselves think about their disorder and why they developed it. When I explain to them about the plight of the anorexics-bulimics I explain it from ...
When I was in high school, a friend of mine suffered from a binge eating disorder, which eventually turned into full blown bulimia. She would eat massive quantities of junk food, then start acting very strangely. Eventually, she would run off by herself to a bathroom where she would then make her herself throw up ...
The History of bulimia is old. Even in ancient Rome people used to vomit up food they ate in the period of feasting. They even had special places for it called “vomitorium”. There is a lot of recollection about these events in ancient Rome books. Roman emperors Claudius and Vitellius were bulimic. Some other cultures ...
I could not put down Marya Hornbacher’s memoir. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia was a book that was difficult to put down and difficult to tear my eyes from. Marya’s (pronounced Mar-Ya, not like Maria) words burned my eyes and made it hard to go to work. At times, ironically, the memoir was ...
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder that is characterized by regular episodes of binging and purging. As soon as the people with this disorder eat they make their way to the bathroom to vomit it up. This behavior is compulsive and the people afflicted with this disorder feel ashamed and set apart from everyone else. ...
