Psych bulimia

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Bulimia

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Bulimia

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• Alternate names include bulimia nervosa and binge-purge behavior

• Bulimia is a disease where a person binges on food and then uses vomiting or laxative abuse to prevent weight gain

What is Bulimia?

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Who suffers?

• 9 times more women than men suffer from Bulimia

• Most common in teenage girls and young women

• Sufferers are usually aware of the disorder but feel guilt or fear

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• There is no specific known cause of Bulimia but a number of different factors seem to be involved and not one specific factor despite heritability anywhere from 54 to 83%

• Bulimia is a chronic illness that is very hard to recover from even with treatment and rehabilitation

Causes?

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Symptoms• Eating binges• Compulsive exercising• Going to the bathroom immediately following

meals• Use of laxatives, diet pills, emetics, or diuretics

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Signs

• Dry mouth

• Rashes

• Pimples

• Broken blood vessels in eyes

• Cuts and calluses on fingers from forcing self to vomit

• Cavities and enamel erosion from acid in vomit

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Treatment

• Support groups for minor cases• Cognitive-behavioral therapy• Nutritional therapy• Antidepressants• Serotonin-reuptake inhibitors• Number of different treatments likely until

patient finds one that works• Relapse is very common

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Complications

• Cavities• Dehydration• Pancreatitis• Esophageal tears• Hemorrhoids• Constipation• Throat inflammation

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Numbers don’t lie

• The media is among the top causes for bulimia because of the portrayal of the ideal size

• A study of high school girls in Fiji showed that the rate of self-purging rose from 0% to 11.3% a few weeks after the province began the use of television

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• Bulimia is most common among Caucasians• Also most common among people in groups

involved with ideas of a slim appearance such as gymnastics, dance, figure skating, modeling, acting, running, cheerleading and rowing

• Studies in 11 countries of 44,798 people, over 16 years showed that on average 0.42% of males suffer from bulimia and 2.73% of females suffer

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• I feel guilty when I eat too much and I feel that I have to throw it up and go to the gym to look like my friends and all the beautiful people in the media

My bulimia

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• When I look in the mirror I see how fat and ugly I am, that makes me want to go to the gym and throw up

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• I hate going to school because everyone else is so skinny. I don’t eat lunch because I don’t want people to judge me on how much I eat

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• I struggle greatly in school because my body is exhausted from not eating lunch, going to the gym, and throwing up every morning

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• I go to the bathroom frequently to do my make up and my hair so I look pretty. I always look in the mirror and see that big fat girl staring back at me. I hate myself

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• I finally told my doctor

about my Bulimia and he confirmed that I suffer from it. He told me that I need to think positive thoughts about myself and not worry about my size because I am at a healthy weight.

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• Summer is getting close and this makes me even more self conscious because all my friends will be beach ready so I have to work extra hard to lose extra weight before summer starts.

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• All of this extra stress is overwhelming. I cant concentrate in school because I am so tired all the time and I am now smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. I didn’t go to my high school dance because everyone would stare at me the whole time and it wouldn’t be any fun.

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• My life is miserable. Bulimia has ruined any joy that I ever had or hope to regain. It is pointless to even keep living when I will never live a normal life or have normal friends ever again. My life is over because of this disease. I cant get better

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• I would never wish this upon my worst enemy. It caused me to lose all my friends, rely on substances and hate myself. I live in a prison inside my body.