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Bulimia
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have this prob lem she realizes
she is not crazy.
Martha began binge eating
and purging after she ate a
whole package of cookies. She
was worried about whether or
not her pants would fit the next
day. Her roommate told her to
just make herself throw up.
It worked. But after awhile
Martha began to get worried.
“After I threw up, my left arm
would go numb,” she says.
Martha got counseling after
reading an article that scared
her.
Hope says bulimics have com
mon traits. They usually are
attractive, brighter than aver
age, very involved in many acti
vities and predominantly
female, she says.
Martha and Carol, both
attractive young women, make
good grades. Both are involved
in University activities and
Martha is in a sorority.
Kimbrough says any kind of
stress — career, boyfriend,
parental or sexual conflicts —
can lead to binge eating and
purging.
Binging and purging give a
bulimic a feeling of control, she
says. Bulimics seem to be perfec
tionists who are used to controll
ing their lives. She says a lack of
assertiveness also may lead a
person to try to control her life
with binge eating and purging.
normal weight and don’t appear
to have a problem at all. The
of the “perfect image”
the
Kimbrough says the bulimic
was often the “good girl” of the
family. Both Martha and Carol
say when they were children
they were rarely in need of disci
plining. Martha say her father
couldn’t figure out what to do
with a child who was already so
hard on herself.
Part of the problem is society’s
emphasis on thinness, Kim
brough say.
She says bulimics usually are
pressure
creates some of the problem.
“You have a distorted self-
image,” Carol says. When she
was very thin, she still believed
she was huge.
Martha says there’s nothing
you can do about society, so she
has learned to be happy and
satisfied with herself and what
she sees as important.
“It occurred to me that I ex-'
pect so much from myself,”
Martha says. She assumes others
expect from her what she ex
pects from them.
She says therapy has helped
her to realize that everything is
not ever going to be absolutely
perfect. She has learned to stop
herself when she demands too
much of herself.
Hope says the therapy group
helps bulimics change their
thoughts so stressful events
won’t seem so catastrophic. The
group works on handling such
situations with other ways be
sides eating.
“Knowing why there’s a prob
lem won’t solve it, but it gives
cues on what we need to work
on,” Hope says.
Tips from the therapy group
" e a friend with
for bulimics: take
you grocery shopping; in
cafeteria lines pick up your tray
before you get to the desserts
because it’s more difficult to
grab food when your hands are
busy; take up a hobby; and if you
feel lonely, call a friend. Keep
your mind off eating.
Martha and Carol appear to
be well on their way to recovery.
“I’m very happy now,” Carol
says. “Grades and looks aren’t a
reflection of the real me.”
Martha says: “It’s a confusing
thing, but it’s not a hopeless
thing.”
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