Bulimia Nervosa Research Paper

Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by frequent episodes of binge eating, followed by frantic efforts to avoid gaining weight. It affects women and men of all ages. When struggling with bulimia, life is a constant battle between the desires to lose weight or to stay thin and the overwhelming compulsion to binge eat. Bulimia does not necessarily involve purging; physically eliminating the food from the body by throwing up or using laxatives, enemas, or diuretics, but people can make up for their binges by fasting, excessive exercising and going on crash diets.
The reason I chose to write on this topic is because the media emphasizes and portrays the perfect model with the perfect figure without discussion healthy …show more content…
1.). Trauma can comes in the form of neglect, abuse, accidents and attacks such as sexual assault or rape. The article mentioned that people who are biologically predisposed to eating disorders are likely to have the eating disorder triggered by something as highly emotional, and stressful as sexual abuse or any other form of trauma. (Abuse and eating, 2014, para 2). Many survivors of sexual abuse that develop an eating disorder belief that the eating disorder is a means of survival and that the eating disorder behaviors are healthy and required. Whilst is it important to understand that the eating disorder and the trauma are separate issues, they often become linked in the sufferer’s understanding of them. Many sufferers feel that the eating disorder is a way that they are able to cope with their trauma and stress. For this reason, many sufferers are scared to give up their eating disorders. This has led to many neurobiological and behavior …show more content…
The best thing a trusted family member, partner, or friend can do is to be supportive. Let the bulimic be open about his/her feelings, and maintain open communication. Sometimes something as serious as death could occur due to the effects of bulimia and everyone involved could experience considerable pain. There is a lot of pain of losing someone, and the guilt that maybe everything was not done that could have been to help the bulimic. While this may feel like an “alone” disease, it involves everyone who is close to the sufferer, especially once the bulimia effects become common knowledge (“Effects of bulimia on friends and family”, 2012, para.

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