If you or your loved one is suffering from bulimia, you are not alone. Fairwinds eating disorders treatment facility provides highly effective bulimia treatment designed to heal the physical and emotional injuries of this dangerous, yet very treatable, eating disorder. Contact us today to begin building a lasting recovery.
What is Bulimia?
Individuals with bulimia nervosa engage in destructive and secretive cycles of binge eating (the consumption of excessive amounts of food in a short period of time), followed by purging (vomiting, using laxatives or exercising excessively) or other dangerous behaviors to prevent weight gain.
A person diagnosed with bulimia nervosa
- engages in episodes of binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors, on average, at least twice a week for three months. Binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
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- Eating in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any two-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than what most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances.2.
- A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that he/she can’t stop eating or control what or how much he/she is eating).
- Uses inappropriate compensatory behaviors regularly to prevent weight gain, such as:
- Self-induced vomiting
- The misuse of laxatives, diuretics, enemas or other medications
- Fasting
- Excessive exercise
- Places an excessive emphasis on body shape and weight in his/her self-evaluation and uses these factors to determine his/her self-esteem.
- Doesn’t engage in these behaviors exclusively during episodes of anorexia.
Who Suffers from Bulimia?
This eating disorder generally begins in the crucial teen and young adult identity-forming years when societal pressures to be “thin and perfect” are at their greatest. The vast majority clients in our facility’s eating disorders treatment program are adolescent girls and young adult women. But like anorexia, bulimia nervosa can also develop in older females and males of all ages. Fairwinds Treatment Center offers bulimia treatment for both female and male clients.
Because bulimia often occurs together with a chemical dependency and/or psychiatric disorder such as depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Fairwinds Treatment Center is one of only a few dually-licensed psychiatric and substance abuse treatment facilities in the nation to earn accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). This eating disorder generally begins in the crucial teen and young adult identity-forming years when societal pressures to be “thin and perfect” are at their greatest. Fairwinds Treatment Center offers bulimia treatment for both female and male clients.
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