Bulimics on bulimia
By: Edited by Maria Stavrou.
Contributors: Stavrou, Maria.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781843106685
Subjects: Bulimia
Description: "Collection of accounts by people who are living with [bulimia], shedding new light on the day-today struggle of coping with bulimia."--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Binging and purging to stay alive; title: There goes Alice down the hole; title: Living with diabulimia; title: Surrounded by people but completely alone; title: Running away but going nowhere; title: A love of athletics; title: Recovery or what passes for normal; title: High-functioning superwoman; title: The hardest part is wanting to recover; title: Diagnostic labels and sexual abuse; title: College plus eating disorder equals; title: Not good enough; title: An addictive personality, food and alcohol; title: Confession to my roommate, a day in my life; title: Becoming bankrupt and losing everything I had; title: I want to be like you; title: Sex, lies and hedonism; title: The lesbian bulimic mafia; title: Diets don't work, bulimia does.