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Kimbrough and Dr. Kerry
Hope, a counseling psychologist
at the PCS, have started a ther
apy group for bulimics there.
Individuals interested in attend
ing the meetings should call the
PCS (845-4427) for informa
tion. All services are confiden
tial.
“Realizing I’m not by myself
has helped,” Martha, another
bulimic, said. She said by meet
ing other girls who have this
problem 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 said.
Martha got counseling after
reading an article that scared
her.
Hope said bulimics have com
mon traits. They usually are
attractive, brighter than aver
age, involved in activities and
predominantly female.
Martha and Carol, both
attractive young women, make
good grades. Both are involved
in University activities and
Martha is in a sorority.
Kimbrough said 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
said. Bulimics seem to be perfec
tionists who are used to controll-
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ing their lives. A lack of asser
tiveness also may lead a person
to try to control her life with
binge eating and purging.
Part of the problem is society’s
emphasis on thinness, Kim
brough said.
She said bulimics usually are
normal weight and don’t appear
to have a problem at all. The
pressure of the “perfect image”
creates some of the problem.
“You have a distorted self-
image,” Carol said. When she
was very thin, she still believed
she was huge.
Martha said there’s nothing
you can do about society, so she
has learned to be happy and
satisfied with herself and what
npor
“It occurred to me that I ex
pect so much,” Martha said. She
said she assumes others expect
from her what she expects from
them.
She said therapy has helped
her to realize everything can’t be
perfect. She said she has learned
to stop herself when she de
mands too much of herself.
Hope said the therapy group
tries to help bulimics change
their thoughts and learn not to
take events so seriously. She said
the group works on handling
stressful situations with other
ways besides eating.
“Knowing why there’s a prob
lem won’t solve it, but it gives
cues on what we need to i
on,” Hope said.
Tips from the therapy si
for bulimics: take a friend
you grocery shopping;
cafeteria lines pick upyourtu
before you get to the dess®
because it’s more d "
grab food when your hands®
busy; take up a hobby; and iff
feel lonely, call a friend. Ktij
your mind off eating,
Martha and Carol
be well on their way to recovei
“I’m very happy now,"Csij
said. “Grades and looksareiiii
reflection of the real me.”
Martha agreed: “It’saconij
ing thing, but it’s not a
thing.”
Girl’s ‘cancer’ brings
attention to diagnosis
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Doctors
cite the case of a 6-year-old girl
who appeared to have a form of
cancer as an example of how a
non-malignant disease can
mimic cancer and possibly lead
to unnecessary and hazardous
treatment.
It turned out that the youngs
ter had what physicians call “cat
scratch disease,” a benign, self-
limiting disorder of the lymph
nodes believed to be caused by a
virus transmitted by a cat
scratch.
The case was reported by Dr.
Ruth E. Luddy of the University
of Maryland Cancer Center in
Baltimore in the August issue of
Cancer, a journal published by
the American Cancer Society.
Dr. Luddy said the girl was
well until January 1980 when
she experienced a one-week
period of lethargy and a brief
episode of face reddening and
eye tears. A week later, she de
veloped progressive swelling be
low her left eye. Two weeks la
ter, the girl’s left eyelid became
swollen.
The swelling continued and
the girl’s doctor referred her to
the University of Maryland Hos
pital for a biopsy. Examination
then revealed enlarged lymph
nodes and an enlarged gland
near the ear.
Tissue samples were taken
March 5, 1980. The biopsy sam
ples indicated a generally be
nign but potentially serious con
dition known as histiocytosis X,
but because of the uncertainty,
the tissues were forwarded for
review to the Baltimore Cancer
Research Program of the Na
tional Cancer Institute and to
the institute itself.
drugs were contemplated,in
she said in an interview she™"
reluctant to begin chemotk
apy because she was not suit
the diagnosis.
While the girl was at b
awaiting an additional te
however, her swelling shra
and the tissues became Is
tender.
Dr. Luddy said pathologists at
both centers interpreted the
specimen as having an unknown
malignant potential. She said
the most likely diagnosis was
that of a lymphoma, a cancer of
lymphatic tissue.
Dr. Luddy said it wastk
noticed that the girl had at
and frequently played witli;t
friend’s cats. That su
that perhaps cat scratch disea
was the culprit — not cancer
Skin tests confirmed that
girl indeed had cat scratch ili|lierr
ease.
By July 1980, five monthsi
ter the beginning of theordd
all the girl’s symptoms tis
appeared and Dr. Luddy sa
the youngster has been
since then.
The child was referred to the
Maryland cancer center and
additional tests were conducted.
Dr. Luddy said another biopsy
and treatment with anti-cancer
In discussing lessons leam
from the case, Dr. Luddy sait
is likely that similar casesina
past may have so closely rest!
bled lymphoma that the patit
received unnecessarytreatraa
IV
New brain scanner offers H
chance to follow patterns
Sherr
United Press International
A vital new tool is already
helping scientists map the pat
terns of brain activity associated
with mental illness, normal
thinking and feelings.
The PET — positron emis
sion tomography — scanner is a
machine that can detect and
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tion by tracing the consumption
of glucose. Eventually it may
pinpoint the precise neurobiolo-
gical mechanisms that lie at the
root of human thought.
With PET scans, reports the
August issue of Science Digest
magazine, a patient is injected
with radioactive tracers that
mimic the action of glucose
metabolism, showing that manic
depression and schizophrenia
are accompanied by abnorii
consumption.
Though still in its infant
PET scans have already becoii
the definitive test for epil
who must undergo surge
cause their seizures cannot h
controlled by drugs. In t«
PET may do for behavioral si
ences what the CT scannersi
for physical medicine.
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