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The victim is usually young, slim, attractive, and, much often than not, female. In many cases she is successful in her career and social life. But she has a secret, self-destroying habit that stems from an emotional illness. Almost every day she will eat enormous amounts of high-caloric food, sometimes as much as 500,000 calories in one sitting. Almost immediately afterward, to avoid getting weight, she will purge herself through self-induced vomiting and/or laxative or diuretic abuse.

The name for this heartbreaking illness is bulimia, and many experts estimated that millions of Americans have experienced it. Ironically, because most bulimics don't discuss their binge/purge compulsions, they believe that they are the only ones who suffer from it.

Bulimia the Binge - Purge Compulsion uncovers the mysteries of bulimia, exploring the reasons for the development of the disease among women of intelligence and low self-esteem-women who are victims of the social pressures which afflict their lives. Bulimia the Binge - Purge Compulsion reveals how patients have been abuse by psychiatric treatment at the hands of doctors unfamiliar with the problem: the debilitating effects bulimia can have on the body; as well as the bulimics' relationships with their families, husbands, and lovers. Finally Bulimia the Binge - Purge Compulsion covers the road to recovery-problems involved, forms of treatment, and how to give and get help.
 

RC 552 B8 C38

Bulimia : The Binge-Purge Compulsion

Janice M. Cauwels

Doubleday

1983

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