Baliemia!!!

People who have bulimia eat an excessive amount of food in a single episode and almost immediately make themselves vomit or use laxatives or diuretics (water pills) to get rid of the food in their bodies. This behavior often is referred to as the "binge/purge" cycle. Like people with anorexia, people with bulimia have an intense fear of gaining weight.

I was both bulimic and anorexic. Bulimia is brought on by the self-criticism of ones own body. I suffered more from anorexia then I did bulimia, but there were times that I would force myself to vomit.

what's mean the "Baliemia"?

Let me tell you a story about my friend who had it... kitty is a high school girl like many others... With encouragement from her parents, she studies hard, is on the honor role, the swim team, honor club and even finds time to volunteer in the community.... Yet, on a Friday night, while her parents are out at a movie... she eats enough food for five people then makes herself throw up.... This is not just pigging out. It's symptomatic of an increasingly widespread eating disorder known as bulimia or the binge purge syndrome and it's more prevalent than most realize.... Bulimia, like the better known eating disorder anorexia nervosa, has its own unique characteristics, causes and effects that should be recognized and addressed by society.....First, the characteristics of bulimia involve bingeing on large quantities of junk food, followed by compensation by means of vomiting, laxatives or fasting. "The binge eating and compensatory behaviors must occur at least twice a week for 3 months...This pattern is usually accompanied by an awareness that the eating pattern is abnormal, fear of not being able to stop voluntarily and self-depreciating thoughts... The victims of this disease are almost exclusively women between the ages of 16... the only to stop this illness is by telling them the fact that they're not fat.... and to tell them the adverse effect of doing such thing.. hopefully it will help them overcome it =)

I was bulimic for about 3 years. I started off just throwing up once a month or so, until I got into a habit. I never really made a "decision" to become bulimic, it just happened. Every month turned into every week, and then every few days, and then daily. At my worst I was throwing up 4 times a day. What made me stop was an extreme jolt a pain at about 4am one night. It felt like my heart was going to explode. I went to the doctor and foud out that I had refulx espophagitis. That really freaked me out, and I stopped throwing up for about 6 months, but then I picked it up again. I think im "okay" now, I haven't done it for about 5 months...but I dont really think that bulimia can ever truly be cured. I still think about doing it sometimes.....I just hope that I never do it again.

I don't consider what I have an eating disorder. I force up food but I don't actually throw it up. But go see a therapist and join support groups, even online ones are good.