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Bulimia Comes Out of the Closet
In the winter break of my final year of university, I told my friends I planned to write an essay that would “say the unsayable.” I titled the piece “Fragments of a Bulimic Headcase,” and published it a few months later under a pseudonym in my campus’s annual women’s publication, sent from a fake email address created specifically for the purposes of the submission.
If my friends ever read the essay, they didn’t know that I wrote it. At that point, bulimia was the most shameful secret I had: the corporeal evidence that the person I purported to be — fun, feminist, and effortlessly thin — was a lie. Among the smart, culturally savvy women and men I hung out with, bulimia was a subject…
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Perfectionists more likely to develop bulimia: New research
Most sufferers of bulimia are female. About two per cent of them die every decade. And around a fifth of those deaths about are due to suicide. Uncovering the multiple factors leading to bulimia nervosa is therefore very important, especially as the causes are largely unknown.
A Mother’s Loss, a Daughter’s Story
ANDREW AVRIN sits on a beige couch in a nondescript room, a fruit still-life partly visible on the wall behind him, twisting his fingers while, off-camera, an unseen interviewer prompts him to talk about his sister, Melissa, who died last year at the age of 19 after a long battle with bulimia.
The Strange, Contagious History of Bulimia
In 1972, a woman checked into London’s Royal Free Hospital to be treated for anorexia. “I found her symptoms to be unique,” Gerald Russell, the British psychologist who treated her, tells me. “They didn’t match the diagnostic criteria for anorexia at all.” Unlike his emaciated patients with sallow skin and big eyes, Russell’s new patient was of average weight.
10 things we all need to understand about bulimia
Bulimics 'binge' on large amounts of food and then 'purge' to prevent their body putting on any weight. And young women are more likely to develop the condition than any other group. It's an isolating and lonely illness that's easy to keep secret: 8% of women will suffer from bulimia in their lifetime, but very few will talk openly about it.
Bulimia Isn’t Beautiful: Celebrities with Eating Disorders
Eating disorders don’t care who you are, where you live, or how much money you make. They don’t care about your job or your marital status. They don’t respect class, social station, or pecking order. The most common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating.
I Stopped Bingeing and Purging When I Became a Vegan
"Arresting my bulimia took making a radical and mindful change in what I did and didn't eat."
Is Bulimia Considered A Mental Illness?
Bulimia is an extremely debilitating disorder if gone unrecognized and untreated. Understanding the depths of bulimia and how it can be considered a mental illness is vital in getting the proper treatment that you or a loved one deserves in order to lead a healthy life again.
Lady Gaga Puts Bulimia and Body Image On the Table In A Big Way
Instantly, Gaga turned her website Little Monsters into a dramatic public forum on eating disorders, cutting, and all types of body hating. The photos popping up are startling in their honesty. Reed-thin anorexics, those who are overweight, kids with dwarfism, disfiguring scars and artificial limbs. All baring their souls along with their bodies.
People are freaking out over this ‘obesity treatment’ that sucks food from your stomach
The Huffington Post called it a "bulimia machine." "The reason why people are freaking out over AspireAssist is because it really seems to mimic binging and purging," HuffPost contributor and dietician Abby Langer said. (Especially because there's a toilet involved.)
The “Double Life” of Bulimia Nervosa: Patients’ Perspectives
Bingeing and purging is shameful, but it is also invisible: most bulimia nervosa patients are at a normal weight. It is easier to hide than anorexia, too. (Eating and purging is often easier than not eating and making excuses for it.)
This new weight-loss device may be promising, but it reminds people of bulimia
The provocative new device in question is the AspireAssist, designed to allow obese people who’ve failed to lose weight by most other means drain ingested food from their stomach into the toilet. This may sound extreme, but not long ago bariatric surgery also seemed barbaric — and it has quickly become a common treatment for extreme obesity. Early initial reports about AspireAssist actually show some promise (with several caveats, of course).
‘The Skinny,’ About Bulimia, to Debut at Sundance
Trevor Groth, Sundance’s programming director, writing in festival guidebooks, described the series as “a new kind of dark comedy for those who know that the most beautiful moments in life ain’t always so pretty.” He added of Ms. Kahnweiler, “Mining dark terrain for hilarity is a treacherous game that she plays masterfully.”
Bulimia Comes Out of the Closet
Slowly but surely, though, a handful of writers and feminists have begun a conversation that challenges the usual stereotypes and shame of bulimia.
Anorexia & Bulimia Care
ABC offers personal, on-going, emotional support and practical guidance for recovery for people struggling with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge eating, in addition to related self-harm.
Bulimia Help
It’s about simple, practical steps for recovery that work. I’ve been helping sufferers overcome bulimia since 2007 and if there is one thing I have learned is that it doesn’t matter how long or how severe your bulimia is you can recover.
Bulimia.com
Welcome to Bulimia.com, a resource dedicated to providing information and treatment options to men and women suffering from anorexia, bulimia, and other types of eating disorders.
BulimiaGuide.org
This Web site provides a one-stop comprehensive resource on bulimia nervosa for anyone who wants to understand the disorder and how to support a family member or friend with bulimia nervosa.
Diary of a Bulimic
A few weeks into my blog and I started recovery, so this is now my recovery blog.
Little Monsters
Welcome home, Little Monsters. This is for us. All of us. Little Monsters is a place for all fans of Lady Gaga to gather, create, and to inspire. Share your passion and creativity in a community full of art, acceptance, monsters, and Gaga. Remember to be brave, be kind, be respectful and most importantly... be yourself!
Whitney Gale
It's my life's purpose to change the conversation we have around eating disorders. I was bulimic for 24-years before I started my recovery journey. I quit my career at the end of 2014 to write my book, "Big Girl" and to launch my blog...
Your Bulimia Rcovery
I had been suffering from the effects of bulimia for nearly a decade. I knew I wanted to stop, I knew I had to stop... but after 10 years I had no idea how to end the binge and purge cycle. I felt as though bulimia nervosa would own my life and end my life. But, Guess What? I Recovered and You Can Too!
Eating Disorder Hope
Bulimia Nervosa is a psychological and severe life-threatening eating disorder described by the ingestion of an abnormally large amount of food in short time period, followed by an attempt to avoid gaining weight by purging what was consumed. Methods of purging include forced vomiting, excessive use of laxatives or diuretics, and extreme or prolonged periods of exercising.
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