Weight may be normal or near normal unless anorexia is also present. Like anorexia, bulimia can kill. Even though bulimics put up a cheerful front, they are often depressed, lonely, ashamed, and empty inside. Friends may describe them as competent and fun to be with, but underneath, where they hide their guilty secrets, they are hurting. Feeling unworthy, they have great difficulty talking about their feelings, which almost always include anxiety, depression, self-doubt, and deeply buried anger.
Person acts with little consideration of consequences.
Feels out of control and unable to stop eating during binges. May eat rapidly and secretly, or may snack and nibble all day long. Feels guilty and ashamed of binge eating. Has a history of diet failures Tends to be depressed and obese. People who have binge eating disorder do not regularly vomit, overexercise, or abuse laxatives like bulimics do.