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Bulimic Celebrities - Articles
Crazy Colleen: Battling Bulimic Stigmas
by
Dina S.
Posted
Thu 14 Oct 2010 6:55am
years: bulimia.
In a trash can, in a dumpster, in a bag, in the shower, or in the bushes, bulimics are good at hiding what they do. Made to appear “glamorous” or “an easy out” by celebrities and the usual media craze, bulimia has become a less serious disorder recently and is looked at as simply a way to stay thin. What about the girls hiding their disorder from
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"I was a baby bulimic"
by
Carrie A.
Posted
Thu 16 Jul 2009 10:05pm
Disregard the sensationalistic title and check out this wonderful essay called " I was a baby bulimic: A food critic comes to terms with his appetite," by Frank Bruni.
What struck me, besides the descriptions of bulimia by a male in the early 1980s, was how early in his life the overeating and purging started, and how it appeared to be an echo
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Neurocircuitry in bulimics
by
Tiptoe
Posted
Wed 07 Jan 2009 12:00am
self-regulatory control. During correct trials, those with bulimia had less activity in their frontostriatal region than healthy controls. In incorrect responses, bulimics...
New research in an article on the brain differences in bulimics appears in the January issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. The study consisted of 40 participants
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New blog written by the sister of a bulimic . . .
by
Michelle H.
Posted
Fri 13 Feb 2009 5:20pm
I am very pleased to introduce you all to a new blog that I hope will be very enlightening for us and a place of support and sharing for our families: My Sister Has Bulimia.
The author, a woman I am looking forward to getting to know much better, writes:
Part of the reason I started this blog was to just get my emotions out. I think it can pretty easy
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Brains of bulimics behave differently
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Disordered Times ..
Posted
Sun 11 Jan 2009 3:37pm
Previous studies have shown that the brains of people with anorexia behave differently than in non-disordered people — read here. Now a new study suggests that bulimia... and 20 women with bulimia (median duration of 9 years) in taking the Simon Spatial Incompatibility task, in which a subject indicates the direction of an arrow regardless of its
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Brains of Bulimics are Different
by
Kate McLaughlin.
Posted
Thu 12 Mar 2009 3:42pm
According to an article published in the January 2009 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, women with bulimia, when compared with healthy women, show different... disorders.
In the first study of its kind, Rachel Marsh, Ph.D., from Columbia University, and her colleagues, assessed self-regulatory brain processes in women with bulimia without
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On Bulimics
by
Tracy
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 12:11pm
1 Comment
You gotta admire bulimics. I know: bulimia is a disease. A scourge. A tooth-rotting, bowel-bending, gut-rupturing plague. But the sheer persistence and steely-eyed determination it takes for bulimics to do what they do, day in and day out, is really something special. If I needed, say, a trench dug in the searing heat of August, or a pyramid built
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A note on ’special offers’ (for bulimics)
by
Finding Melissa
Posted
Sun 20 Dec 2009 12:00am
My bulimia loved a bargain.
When most of the money that passed through my hands seemed to end up being flushed down the toilet pan; BOGOFs and ‘special offers... that door shut.
Particularly if you keep re-filling them.
Starvation is hard to forget, and bulimia makes the most of the mentality. After a good few years of investing
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Bulimic Taco
by
Emily
Posted
Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:06pm
My class went well and I got all of my campus to-do’s completed. My San Fransisco trip is causing me to miss a test so I have to complete some forms to be able to get a make-up date. When I was looking at my day planner I realized that that trip is actually the weekend right after I am flying to Ohio for my grandma’s birthday; it’s going to ...
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