It is common knowledge that the cure effect of any disease depends on the time a patient asked for help.

The psychotherapy of bulimia starts since the time of first contact of a psychotherapist and a client.

The key and necessary condition for starting therapy is a client's wish to get rid of the problem, to take on responsibility for her life, and the belief in her abilities and change possibility.

Psychotherapy is aimed at:

Basic causes of bulimia can be formed in childhood: because of traumatic events, character formation and temper, complexes, low self-esteem, etc. I also admit a certain genetically conditioned food addiction and wrong eating education. This is a consistent effect of a plenty of factors; and targeted slimming is just a provocation of that being recorded earlier.

We can't also deny a current effect of fashion and advertising on slenderness standards. As a rule, bulimia progresses in adolescence or a bit later when a girl enters an adult, independent life and has no idea what to do about it. There are lots of adverse factors caused by cutting off ties with mother who used to be an invisible protection and still a fostering «umbilical cord» during prenatal development, ties that had existed before self-identification in independent life and private problems. Cutting off ties with mother is very painful for highly-sensitive and delicate girls.

I have created this blog for everyone and to declare the problem which is very hard to cope with on one's own. Once your start throwing up to keep your weight, you can't stop any more. Weight and parameters of your figure become key life values.

The major psychological bulimia symptoms include::

• Depression, sense of guilt and hate towards yourself.
• Lack of self-control.
• Unreasonable strict self-criticism.
• Continuous need for other's approval.
• Distorted idea of your normal weight.
• Constant obsession with putting off your weight.
• Constant wish «remove» food from your body by all means.

Bulimia predilection test

1. Percentagewise, how much of your energy (thoughts and actions) is spent on dealing with the issue of your own weight?

2. Is the slenderness criterion quite an issue for you?

3. Are you obsessed with losing your weight?

Bulimia… There was a time when I had no slightest idea of WHAT it is. There was a period after that when I couldn't think that it is both my way of life and my problem. Yet what I was even more incapable of understanding is how big is the number of girls and women of different age, income and education all over the world who suffer from the very same thing as me. It has no mercy for anyone.
Bulimia is a disorder of eating behaviour. It is the beginning of almost all definitions for this phenomenon in scientific and medical literature that I have come across. Yet none of them was sufficiently clear for me to form a complete picture of what it is going on with me, and what's more important — how do I get rid of it, or can I?
How did it all begin?