Bulimics on bulimia / Edited by Maria Stavrou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stavrou, Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bulimia.

Eating disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book looks at people who are living with the disorder, shedding new light on the day-to-day struggle of coping with bulimia. It challenges the stereotypical image of the bulimic teenage girl, revealing that it affects a far wider range of people, and dispelling the myth that bingeing involves only food and purging involves only vomiting.

Contents:

Bulimics on Bulimia; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; 1. Binging and Purging to Stay Alive; 2. There Goes Alice Down the Hole; 3. Living with Diabulimia; 4. Surrounded by People but Completely Alone; 5. Running Away but Going Nowhere; 6. A Love of Athletics; 7. Recovery or What Passes for Normal; 8. High-functioning Superwoman; 9. The Hardest partis Wanting to Recover; 10. Diagnostic Labels and Sexual Abuse; 11. College plus Eating Disorder Equals...; 12. Not Good Enough; 13. An Addictive Personality, Food and Alcohol; 14. Confession to My Roommate, A Day in My Life

15. Becoming Bankrupt and Losing Everything I Had16. I Want to Be Like You; 17. Sex, Lies and Hedonism; 18. The Lesbian Bulimic Mafia; 19. Diets Don't Work, Bulimia Does; FURTHER READING

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611892555

9781281892553

1281892556

9781846428456

1846428459

OCLC:

437234327