Is there a point

Hi, thanks to everyone who replied to my question yesterday regarding Bulimia. I was asking a friend today whether I should get help, her answer was "no one can change your eating habits!"....I know at the end of the day the change has to be in me...but then is there any point in trying to get help at all?? How do you know if you need help or not?

hello there,

I have read the question you posted yesterday and was horrified by the doctor who said you'd grow out of it, as though it was some teenage trend!

I used to do the same thing... and it is strange to say it now as it has been at least 8 years since and at the time i used to convince myself that i was only being sick because i felt full and uncomfortable, but i used to over eat and then be sick.

I am very very different now and have a very balanced healthy out look on food and life. I think some times an eating disorder is not just about food, it is about something inside of us that feels sad or dissatisfied or lonely or a number of other things. You should talk to someone about it as it is a health risk, it put your precious heart under great strain not to mention lots of other things.

I wrote to a clinic to see about getting help and the literature they sent me made me decide to stop... i made the decision that it was no longer an option anymore. I read stories about other people who were bulimic ( far far worse than i was) and i thought to myself "that is not the person i want to be" and i changed...not over night but i began to see things in a better light. I began to see how small things really don't matter all that much in the scheme of things. I learned that what you worry about today will only be a memory next week.