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Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders are physiological and/or psychological disturbances in appetite or food intake. The most common ones are Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, and you can use this forum to talk about these and other eating disorders. Share your healing journey, discuss your treatment, and give advice to others.

Do bulimic patients need to be hospitalized? How long their recovery lasts?

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Hello, I have a question. I have a friend who is suffering from bulimia and it took me ages to convince him to talk to his doctor. Now, when he finally visited his doctor, the doctor told him that he needs to be hospitalized. This is weird because I never thought that bulimic people should ever...

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What are warning signs for anorexia and bulimia?

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if there are any warning signs for anorexia and bulimia? I know what these conditions are and I was always wondering if there is a way to know for sure that someone is heading down that road and is in danger of suffering from anorexia or bulimia.  I...

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What are the most common causes of pica eating disorder?

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Hey guys. So I have heard about this pica eating disorder. I found the information that this is eating disorder that has nothing to do with eating, but I think that I didn't understand this that quite good. So, I was wondering, does anyone of you having this problem? How you can find out that you...

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Can you tell me treatment options for pica eating disorder?

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For the first time in my life, a couple of day ago I have heard about "pica eating disorder". Since a couple of days ago, I believed that there is only a term - eating disorder. Nothing else.  To cut long story short, my very good friend told me that she was diagnosed with pica eating...

by User avatar Stressed-OR-Depressed352379

What Are the Health Effects of Chewing and Spitting Out Food?

Hi there, A very good friend of mine has this weird and disgusting habit to not swallow his food, he just chews it and then he spits it out. It's awful to observe that and he does it all the time. I tried to tell him to stop but he can't, it is like he is addicted to doing that. I told...

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Anorexia nervosa treatment: the best diet plan for people suffering from it

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Hello guys. So, my good friend Larry called me today. He lives in Canada and he is far away from me, so I can't talk to him face to face and I am really sad about it. Well, here is what is going on. His wife has some problems. She believes that she is fat, but he thinks that she is really thin and...

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Best Anorexia Diet Plan for Anorexia Nervosa

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Hello guys.  There is one thing that I would like to know. My good friends daughter has some problems with her eating plan. She is a teen girl and she believes that she is fat. She is only 17 years old and I do know the problems of the girls in that age. I mean, I had this problem myself....

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Is healthy weight loss possible in anorexia recovery?

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Hi everyone, I am a young girl (22 years old) from eastern Europe, and I have a bit of a complicated problem. At least I consider it to be complicated. I wanted to be a model when I was 17 so I started eating less, or nothing. I eventually really got into eating nothing and I got...

by User avatar Guest

What effect does eating ice have on the body?

OK guys, please don't laugh at this what I am going to confess you because I think that this is some kind of disorder and when I say disorder - I mean SERIOUS disorder.  Well, when I was a kid I was always eating ice because my mom didn't want to buy me an ice cream.She told me...

by User avatar IceEating

I can't eat, I can go 2 days without eating

I have a problem. I'll go 20-48 hours without eating or eating just enough to keep myself functioning. I'll do this for maybe a week to two weeks. Then, I'll eat every day but no matter what I eat, even if it's just plain bread, my stomach gets so upset to where I either throw up or get the runs....

by User avatar Kitty_Goddes