Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa is a deadly disorder. It originates from the Greek word “boulima,” meaning ravenous hunger, and the word Nervosa meaning nervous, or with nervous habit. Bulimia is an emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting. Bulimia Nervosa is an extremely overlooked eating disorders, provided a large amount of bulimics are usually slightly overweight, average sized, or only slightly underweight, and seeing as a large amount people believe that to have an eating disorder people must have a certain body type, it continues to be overlooked. The largest misconception with Bulimia is
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This being the case for all eating disorders, a great deal develope undetected provided they’re covered up by the disordered. Though Bulimia is very overlooked as a life threatening eating disorder, it is often used as a running gag centered around teenage girls, therefor stating that at one point or another all of us were a little bulimic. Similarly done by the media and society alike Bulimia is shown as an exceedingly glamorous “lifestyle” that people can pick up and put down anytime they please. An example of Bulimia being used by the media and society as a “phase” that “all girls progress through”, “I wanna drink until I ache, I wanna make a large mistake, I want blood, guts, and angel cake, I'm gonna puke it anyway”, Teen Idle by Marina And The Diamonds, “Grow up, heather. Bulimia is so '87”, Heathers (1988), and “I get home, I got the munchies. Binge on all my Twinkies. Throw up in the tub.”, Habits by Tove Lo. All the quotes stated are casually slipped into songs and movies as though bulimia isn’t at all a serious or deadly eating disorder. In other words, people need to watch out for themselves and others, seeing as though all eating disorders start truly innocently, and if people would just watch for the ridiculously obvious warning signs, thenceforth a great deal of people with eating disorders would receive treatment. All eating disorders seriously dangerous, people need to review, or truly consider all the issues they’ve dismissed as
This being the case for all eating disorders, a great deal develope undetected provided they’re covered up by the disordered. Though Bulimia is very overlooked as a life threatening eating disorder, it is often used as a running gag centered around teenage girls, therefor stating that at one point or another all of us were a little bulimic. Similarly done by the media and society alike Bulimia is shown as an exceedingly glamorous “lifestyle” that people can pick up and put down anytime they please. An example of Bulimia being used by the media and society as a “phase” that “all girls progress through”, “I wanna drink until I ache, I wanna make a large mistake, I want blood, guts, and angel cake, I'm gonna puke it anyway”, Teen Idle by Marina And The Diamonds, “Grow up, heather. Bulimia is so '87”, Heathers (1988), and “I get home, I got the munchies. Binge on all my Twinkies. Throw up in the tub.”, Habits by Tove Lo. All the quotes stated are casually slipped into songs and movies as though bulimia isn’t at all a serious or deadly eating disorder. In other words, people need to watch out for themselves and others, seeing as though all eating disorders start truly innocently, and if people would just watch for the ridiculously obvious warning signs, thenceforth a great deal of people with eating disorders would receive treatment. All eating disorders seriously dangerous, people need to review, or truly consider all the issues they’ve dismissed as