A bulimic patient can gain weight even with excessive laxative use. Bulimic patients often have a problem with recognizing nutritious food choices eating enough food to maintain a healthy body weight obesity an inability to control responses to impulse and desire 44. Compulsive lying about eating habits is often a sign of a serious eating disorder. Bulimia is the eating disorder associated with a significant risk of suicide. The essential difference between anorexia and bulimia is age of onset.
Bulimia begins in early childhood. is gender.
Men are more likely to suffer from anorexia nervosa. Treatment of either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa patients is complex should be a team approach by experienced health care professionals involves outpatient therapy, and sometimes inpatient therapy needs to involve the family all of the above 48. Compulsive overeating can be characterized by bingeing in the absence of purging secretive eating eating to avoid feeling and dealing with emotional pain the early phase of bulimia 49. Binge eating Anorexia nervosa Compulsive overeating Bulimia 50.