Who is Bulimia?

Bulimia is an equal opportunity eating disorder. Although more prevailent in women, many men also suffer. There is no 'too old' or 'too young'. Bulimia can afflict the rich or the poor. Good students, kind people, MVP athletes, outgoing friends, loving family members, and you and me. Bulimics please other people before themselves. Bulimics want to be loved, to have approval, and have a difficulty expressing their needs.

What is Bulimia? (from the DSM IV: The tool psychologists use to diagnose Bulimia)

1.) Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:  eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances  a sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating)  2.) Recurrent i