This video gives some great insights into bulimia.
Nineteen-year-old Sarah Siskin died from bulimia in 2003 after fighting to control her eating disorder for seven years. Her parents, Alan and Barbara Siskin, and sister, Leah, reflect on Sarah’s life six years after her death. Video by Megan Rossman / The Washington Post Video Rating: 4 / 5
I think my friend is bulimic. im actually 95% sure she is. right after every meal she runs to the bathroom and comes back with watery eyes and even smells of throw up up close.
Anyways, I was just wondering if YOU know anyone who is bulimic and if so what is his/her story? how old was he or she and what ended up happening?
also, what can bulimia do to you? your body? your teeth? your life?
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder. In the mind of a person with this condition, being fat is something to be afraid of. What a bulimic does is “binge and purge.” He or she eats a huge amount of food within a short span of time. This type of eating behavior is called binge eating. After a bulimic binges, he immediately purges himself of the food that he has just taken in. In purging, he could use different methods like take laxatives or other drugs. However, for most people with this disorder, vomiting is induced.
Since bulimics are afraid to get fat, they resort to other measures to keep the extra weight off. Exercise is one strategy of a bulimic to attain a certain body image.
It is true that exercise is a good way to keep the heart and muscles functioning properly. It is also an effective way to target unwanted fat in the body because of increased cardiovascular activity and sweating. The effects of such physical activity have led bulimics to the conclusion that purging and exercise is an effective way to stay thin.
Most people who fall for the dangerous combination of exercise and bulimia are often those who believe that maintaining a certain body shape is the same as being healthy. They have the feeling that doing a lot of exercise is good for the body because it helps burn calories faster. However, bulimics try to do too much even if their bodies are too weak from the lack of nutrition. Sometimes, in their obsession with a harmful amount of exercise, they overexert themselves.
This type of bulimia is often difficult to trace and difficult to keep in check. Talking with professionals could help a lot.
By: Thomas Morva
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I know it can but how exactly? Any doctors or just ery well informed people out there know? Is it hormones it affects?
I mean when the bulimic individual is not underweight at all.
I understand why anorexics lose their periods because they are so underweight they simply don’t have the resources but if you are at a “healthy” weight I just can’t understand how they would be affected.
