Bulimia

[Justintime]

Not sure how to approach this.. do sufferers EVER get over this? Asking this as i have a friend who was very portly as a kid, she then developed bulimia and lost loads of weight to the point everyone thought she was going to die as she was like 50lbs underweight. Parents finally got off their bums and she had therapy etc..
Allegedly she has been 'clean' for about 8yrs now.. but tonight rang me crying that for the past month shes been 'purging' again. I suspected this as last week her face was rather puffy and eyes red.. but thought it might be a hangover. Shes normal weight and rather attractive and i don't get it.. Any advice on what exactly to say, we're meeting tomorrow night.

 

[Justintime]

Not a medical thread? Not asking for any medicine or advice of that sort. Just what to say.

 

[Justintime]

It's interesting to read other people accounts, I was fat ( 23 stone ) and I remember to this day the morning I changed. At the time it was like a light going on but in reality it probably went off. I was never bulimic, I rarely purged but I didn't eat. I stopped eating anything other than a bowl of branflakes once a week. 9 months later I was 11 stone and both my lungs collapsed, things were shutting down, people had stopped telling me how amazing I looked amd started to think I was a drug addict. To me I was huge.

Wow man.. one meal a week? I admittedly was fat, 18 stone-ish as well but luckily had a growth spurt and went from 5ft 3 to 5 11 in 1 year that seemed to drain my body, went down to 13 stone and have been there with bouts of chubbiness in the 14.5 stone region but nothing ever as bad since, 12yrs now i suppose.
I'll have a one to one with her and definetly try to suss out the situation and get her to see a doctor.