Bulimia

From a Q&A section in one website, I read a person’s comment on bulimia. She has been suffering from bulimia for four years now, and it even gave her sociophobia which has been going on for three years now. This made her to insist staying at home and be taken care by her family. She wanted a change in her life, so she decided to be independent from her family, but she still has the same issue. For four years, she usually ate 10,000 kcal per day and always ended up throwing up everything, so she does not think herself is fat as she is underweighted, yet she hates seeing herself in front of the mirror. In addition, she always thinks she looks a lot fatter when she meets other girls even though she in fact is leaner. This makes her to avoid socializing with other people, and her relationship with boyfriends has always been bad. She knows she has bulimia, but she does not know how to get over with it. She tried to do everything she can, but she eventually ends up going back to eating way too much and throwing up whenever she gets stress.

Then I read answers to her comments. However, I did not think any of the answers was actually helpful to what the person was going through because most people commented on how she should control her diet. Some people just answered that she should try to do jump rope 700 everyday and eat one bowl of rice for a meal. Well, now everyone knows that bulimia is more concerned with mental problem. If the person’s sense of value in her life changes, and people around her helps her to do that, she would be able to make some change as she wish to. Because the contemporary society wants lean girls, women tend to put the value into maintaining their body, but it should not be the center of their life.