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Bulimia
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Also known as: binge-purge disorder · Bulimia nervosa · binge eating with vomiting · purging · bulimarexia · bulimic · eating and purging · BN
Your Body Is Speaking
It begins in secret. No one sees it — that is part of the pattern. First the eating, hurried, driven, almost like a trance. Then the shame. Then the undoing — vomiting, laxatives, excessive exercise, fasting. And afterward the silence. The emptiness. The promise that it was the last time. Until it happens again.
Medicine describes bulimia as an eating disorder with recurring binge episodes and compensatory behaviour. And on the clinical level, that is what it is. But the question BodySignal asks runs deeper: what is your body trying to fill that no food in the world can fill? And what is it trying to get rid of that has nothing to do with eating?
Bulimia is not a loss of control, but the desperate attempt to keep something under control that is dissolving from within.
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