Bulimia is a condition in which a sufferer will consume a large quantity of food – of which are of many hundred calories – quickly and without control. In some cases the issue is not the amount of food intake but the secretive, hurried and shameful way they feel when it is consumed. 

 

In Bulimia their binges will follow by an attempt to compensate their behaviours most commonly by making themselves vomit (purge). Sometimes a sufferer will deliberately starve themselves, take laxatives, use diuretics or excessively exercise. This forms a Bulimic Cycle in which they may carry out this behaviour on a daily basis, once in a while, or consistently over a number of months or years.

 

While the Bulimic Pattern exists, the sufferer will experience an array of negative feelings that fuel their habit including self-hatred, disgust, low self-esteem and are likely to have depression. On the outside, bulimic sufferers will often come across as confident people who are personable. They are deeply unhappy. Unlike Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia is not necessarily visible and can remain hidden from those who are closest to them for a long time and so becomes a very successful tool for hiding emotional pain.