A Friend Dying of Anorexia and Bulimia
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Jennifer aka Beautiful MIndPosted
Sun 06 Jul 2008 5:10pm
When I was 12 years old, I went on my first diet. I did not know that taking this action would lead, eventually, to a full-blown eating disorder which would nearly take my life at the age of 17. I struggled with my eating disorder- anorexia nervosa- in therapy, in a hospital, and eventually, on my own, for a very long time. In my twenties, I fina ...
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Eating Disorders — Bulimia and Anorexia
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Lisa FrederiksenPosted
Wed 02 Nov 2011 1:58pm
by Lisa Frederiksen
As someone who was anorexic for a year and then bulimic for eleven years back in the late 1960’s and throughout the decade of the 1970’s, I can attest to just how far treatment of eating disorders has come.
My “ah ha” moment with my own came when I read a small column piece in Newsweek magazine that talked about a wo ...
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Anorexia and Bulimia in Our Culture: Unspoken Questions
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RosePosted
Tue 12 Oct 2010 6:16pm
It wasn't until after i started writing a completely different post that i realized what i wanted to write about today. It's a topic that affects me personally and deeply, but also something that is very rarely talked about in the eating disorder community (both on blogs & in treatment or with mental health professionals, and even with friends). ...
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Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
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Krystal PlonskiPosted
Sat 09 Jun 2012 12:27pm
As I prepare for my upcoming preceptorship working with adolescents in the Seattle area, I am reminded to know an extensive amount about the various eating disorders, particularly Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia nervosa.
Anorexia nervosa is classified as “refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for tha ...
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Anorexia. And Bulimia. And Stalemate.
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Finding MelissaPosted
Tue 27 Apr 2010 12:00am
My diagnosis was anorexia bulimia.
I stopped eating . Lost lots of weight. Started throwing up what I did eat. And then added in some hardcore bingeing for good measure.
I am more aware, now, of the different diagnostic criteria, and how they’re all subtyped and divided. I don’t think they were so defined, when I started out, so ...
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Orthorexia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia and the Raw Food Diet
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Annet v.Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 6:39pm
This information comes from orthorexia.com and is written by Steven Bratman M.D.
What is Orthorexia?
It’s great to eat healthy food, and most of us could benefit by paying a little more attention to what we eat. However, some people have the opposite problem: they take the concept of healthy eating to such an extreme that ...
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Eating Disorders – Bulimia Is As Dangerous As Anorexia
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Lucy J.Posted
Thu 20 Aug 2009 10:02pm
Even though anorexia is the most widely recognized of the various different eating disorders by the medical community. Those that actually suffer from the one known as bulimia should not feel that this condition is a much less serious one. In fact when it comes to eating disorders, bulimia can be just as destructive to a person's health as anorex ...
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Opening our eyes to pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia websites
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David W.Posted
Mon 21 Jun 2010 8:27pm
If you came here on a search for pro-anorexia or pro-bulimia websites please visit Getting Help for Anorexia and Bulimia at HealthyPlace.com instead (or at least first).
I’m happy to see that the American Journal of Public Health has published a study of eating disorder websites –the so-called “pro-Ana” and “pro-Mia” (as in anorexia and ...
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Binge Eating Disorder – the other side of Anorexia and Bulimia
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David M.Posted
Sat 26 May 2012 10:19pm
Eating yourself to death – Binge Eating Disorder
We used to ignore Binge Eating and only pay attention to eating disorders that involved inappropriate ways to control weight. Anorexia and Bulimia are well recognized eating problems that were covered in pervious posts.
Anorexia - http://counselorssoapbox.com/2012/05/25/middle-class-and ...
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