how do you feel about anorexia and bulimia?

Answer 1

Its a horrible mental disorder that if left untreated, could be very fatal ... even if you live through it, your body won't be the same.

Answer 2

If you do a review of the literature on anorexia and bulimia, you'll get a lot of different theories about potential causes. They range from pressure from society to be beautiful, to playing a role in a dysfunctional family, to having certain survival mechanisms go out of control if you exercise and diet too much. I've known two people with eating disorders very well. One committed suicide; the other has been raising havoc in the lives of any man with which she gets involved with. A nurse I work with said to me once that she believes that almost every person with an eating disorder also has a personality disorder, that is, a dysfunctional way of thinking about and interacting with the world and other people that is destructive and pervasive enough that it has become a part of that person's personality. I would agree with this statement. Cutting to the chase and getting to the point, I'm not so sure that the "why" question is as important as the "what do we do about it" question. Up where I live, in the Great White North, there are programs that provide meal supervision (so that they eat their meals and don't barf them out afterwards), supportive counselling, and psychiatric services. Eating disorders are a long-term problem. If you know someone who has anorexia or bulimia or both, the disorder(s) has to be addressed. It can kill, either through making the body malfunction (usually something involving the heart) or through suicide.

Answer 3

Eating disorders are the most-often fatal of all mental disorders. They are a manifestation of self-hatred; anorexia, in particular, is typically a form of slow suicide.

People with eating disorders (by a wide margin women suffer from eating disorders more than men) will NOT get better without outside help. "Talk therapy" is important; psychopharmacological drugs can be part of a treatment plan. Supervised eating, support groups and many other actions are going to be necessary to achieve recovery.

A terrrible problem is that, because treatment has a low success rate, insurance companies are hesitant to pay for treating eating disorders. The likelihood that the first course of treatment is going to work is very low; success increases with subsequent courses of treatment, but no one has ever reliably reported a success rate of over 50%. If insurance companies spend a limitless amount of money on treatments with low success rates, there is no money left to pay for treating heart attacks, cancer, strokes and other curable diseases. So, even were success possible, too often the patient runs out of money, or the patient's family runs out of money. This is a problem without a good solution.

If you, or someone you know, has an eating disorder, get to a clincial psychotherapist of some sort. Physicians (pediatricians, internists, emergency medicine specialists - these are the physicians who most often first see eating disorders) are generally poorly trained to recognize an eating disorder, and even worse-trained to deal with one. Many believe it's a behavior problem and if the patient would just cut this stuff out everything would be OK. A clincial psychotherapist (there are many levels, does not have to be a psychiatrist or clincial psychologist) will recognize and know how to approach the disease.

Answer 4

There should be more awareness about these debilitating diseases. There are so many things that can trigger an eating disorder. These diseases do not discriminate based on race, religion, color or gender.

Society's current distorted view of beauty is like a cancer; curable mind you! The person you least likely suspect might have an eating disorder because of low self esteem, depression or even just because they're tired of not being able to fit into skinny jeans. Even people who seem confident and intelligent; someone who seems immune to all things superficial can become a victim. It's because we are constantly bombarded with images of unrealistic beauty standards...movies, music videos, ads. Losing weight gets you compliments even if you never needed to lose weight anyway.

We can be so critical about the way we look because the people around us keep reinforcing the idea that beauty is important. The girl with the killer body gets fawned over and we can't help but want that sort of attention.

If we can get beyond this superficiality, so much pain can be erased. We need better role models; people who are radiant simply because they love themselves. The media is such a big culprit. Only money speaks to them. Unfortunately, there aren't many famous names out there who are strong enough to change the current situation. They fear losing out to skinny lollipop heads.

Remember to love yourself. Despite everything you see and hear, embrace yourself. Forget the skinny jeans and live your life like you were meant to; gloriously!

Answer 5

I think that they are both very dangerous to start doing. Bulimia, is when you throw up your food, right after you eat it, and that ends up usually truning into anorexeia. That will shrink all of your organ, that includes your heart. You stop eating, and you have to be stucking on ice all of the time, and when they try to finally get you to eat, you cry, cause you just can't eat, and you don't want to be forced to eat, like they are making you. And then they end up giving you the cup of ice and you are still crying, cause you don't want to have the ice neither

So that is what i think of anorexia and bulimia, and i would have to ask you please to not go there. Seek professional help.

Answer 6

I'm a bulimic and I feel really bad about it. I'm afraid to ask for help because I'm afraid of what my family and friends might think (I'm a teenager). I know bulimia is serious and I need help but I'm to ashamed to ask for it.

Answer 7

I find it really sad but i knew this girl who had bulimia and she went on and on about it, after a while i got bored with it and told her to sort it out then. Sorry i know that seems wrong but i hated her anyway because she bulied me for ages lol

Answer 8

They're bad news.......... I've never been skinny, so I work out
and eat differently, but then again I have an average build.
I look sick when I go under a certain weight.

I hate exercise, it's a waste of time....but it works though...

Answer 9

anorexia is okay cos i mean i am... and i controll wat i eat and when...i am soo anti-bulimia tho >=[ its horriblE! and some ppl can start wid anorexia and lead to bulimia but i havnt so that theory is wrong as long as ur in controll of anorexia then i think ur fine....its like a diet

Answer 10

i feel very sorry for the sufferers of these diseases, people dont realise how much damage they can cause the body and the media and celebrities dont help by promoting size 6 waistlines and eating 1 portio of carrot food every other day