Is there also symptoms relating to psychological problems too? do you know someone who has suffered and recovered from one of these?? Which one? Is there a way to help them to encourage them to really want to work at it?
its more dangerous. its one thing to not put food in your body but another to put it in there and take it out.
when you throw up, you are damaging your esphogaus. you are also bringing up the acid in your stomach and it will deteriate your throat. you are having your body take in food and fool it into thinking you ate but you body catches on too fast.
you need to get help if you have an eating disorder. just for the quality of life sake. you rather die then be healthy and not ugly thin? i dont understand.
Bulimia is just as dangerous as anorexia, but it is often charcterized as less dangerous because it is less rare, and there are fewer bulimia-related deaths. but bulimia really is dangerous: throat cancer, stomach cancer, rotted teeth, sores on the hands and around the mouth, weakened heart, dehydration, serious electrolyte imbalance, malnutrition . . .it's all there, and you really can die.
I have had bulimia for four years. I am semi-recovered at this point. Recovery is very, very, hard for anyone with an eating disorder. They define themselves by their disorders, they arrange their life around food and controlling their appetites. Letting go of the disease means confronting the issues behind the disease, and that process is never easy.
It's hard to force someone into recovering, because we eating-disordered types are a creative bunch. the person has to want it for themselves, or they will just fall back into the same behavioral patterns. Therapy along with meds like Prozac are usually most helpful to get the person to realize their worth.
Whenever someone told me to eat I would do the opposite. so dont yell or nag at the person.
it is worse because the violent actions that you are doing to your system. For example you can get esophageal cancer or esophageal hernia from the stomach acids, not a good thing.
I was anorexic for four years and almost died.
I have been bulimic for 3 years and have almost died.
Bulimia is worse because its effects are immediate as well as its inherent dangers. You can be 80 lbs for awhile and not even have terrible health, but you cannot puke up everything, everyday and avoid electrolyte imbalance, amylase imbalance, faintness, the body immediately adjusting metabolism and the entire digestive process to a binge/purge cycle.
And this sounds crazy but anorexia made me happier. even though it was irrational and false, the sense of power and control plus the physical skinniness that people love made me sooo much happier than bulimia ever did…bulimia in fact only made me feel OUT of control, disgusting, inferior, no physical perks and much more medically unstable.
it is a living hell of hells.