Bulimia participants for a study

[linia]

Hi all,

I need a volunteer for a homwork assignment that involves assessing a person with bulimia nervosa and then devising a treatment program for them.

The questions below can be quite personal and in depth but it is only for the assigment and a private name can be used, the information goes no where further than the assignment.

Who knows you can use the program and see if it works for you after the expert views my treatment plan and says it is good one.


Here is the information and questions:

I am interested in the specific compensatory methods you use (i.e., self-induced vomiting, laxatives, diuretics, enemas, fasting, excessive exercise), even if it is combination of methods?

Questions about onset, history, and frequency of use of these methods should follow. When did you start using the above methods? How many times in a week, or is it daily, etc? Any background information you would like to share would be great.

Previously did you have anorexia nervosa or just this one?

Any psychiatric disorders such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders and substance use disorders, if you have any of these along with the bulimia it is important to know because the treatment plan changes course when there are other disorders mixed in.

The patient’s family and social history, educational and occupational history, and motivation for treatment. You can speak of general information, whatever you feel comfortable in sharing. Depends on how in depth of treatment plan you want.

Menstrual irregularities also occur in bulimics besides anorexics. A menstrual history should be obtained because if it is missing, it is essential that it returns. If I was treating this like a real case, you would need to tell you doctor about the irregularirities again it is about getting better.

Please anyone brave enough, it is for the help of others besides yourself. I am entering this field and will have to help many like you suffering from bulimia, what better way than to learn from you in order to help your fellow sufferers.

[cateka]

I have been bulimic for 6 years. The worst part is I know I am ruining my teeth, I am exhausted all of the time, and trying to get all of the stuck pieces of vomit out of my nose is one of the most disgusting and degrading things in the world, I hate myself for it but I can't stop.

I've gone in and out of fasting periods, I exercise for about 2 1/2 hours every day and try not to eat at all if I can't manage it. Alternatively I do eat and purge every bit of it. It originally started with me throwing up just a few times a week when I felt very full but now I seem to do it after almost every meal. Yesterday everything I put in my mouth came straight back up - and as you purgers/bingers know, thats one hell of a lot of food.
The thing is, having exercised and eaten healthy for a long time has caused me to loose a lot of weight and now it seems that the less I weigh, the more terrified I am of getting fat.

Becoming fat is the most horrible thing I can ever imagine happining. I am 18 and 8 stone 3lb and I'm only getting more terrified.

I have starved myself for several days in the past, but this was not consistant so I don't consider it anorexia.

I've always had an anxiety disorder, ever since I went to secondary school. It never gets any better, when I am out with my boyfriend and his friends its all I can do not to burst into tears. When I am out at gigs I always feel fat and ugly and terrified that other people are singling me out and staring. Its stemming my enjoyment of everything.

The only time I've had a menstrul irregularity was when I was 14 but I think this was on account of stress and depression as opposed to bulimia.

[love0all]

I generally self induce vomit. I have taken laxitives (alot), I fast all the time. I exercise but i dont think i do it too much, but that would be a matter of interpretation. right now i dont use my hands or anything to make myself sick, i just do it-sometimes unintentionally

I would say i started making myself throw up in the 8th grade so over 5 years now. I started restricting as far back as the 6th grade and i remember feeling ugly in the 3rd grade lol. Right now i make myself throw up almost everyday, usually 3times per day. I go in bouts where sometime i will eat normal (not often and it hasnt happen for years) then i will fast and restrict alot, then ill start throwing up what i eat then i NEED to throw up-doesnt matter if theres any substance in me, i have to throw up. I have stayed home from school and just ate and threw up all day so 10-15 times. :/ When my mom was younger she had bulimia and anarexic, and i didnt find that out till years after mine had developed-she doesnt know about mine. Im pretty sure my older sister has issues with food, not quite as bad as mine but she exercises like crazy and is always on some diet. ps i live with my dad so i dont see my mom much and my sister is on her own wiht 3 kids so its not like we are all under one house with these disorders.

I think i have probally struggled with anarexia- i pretty sure i alternate back and forth

I dont think i have any other disorders. i cut myself lol

My family would NOT be involved with treatment. My school councilor even found out about my disorder and decided its better not to tell my parents. She tried to help me for a few months but gave up i think-idk i wish she hadnt. Last year i didnt want to get better i wanted to be left alone to die. But my councilor started to help a little and i started to have hope i could get better- not now. But now i WANT to get better, i wnat to look in the mirror and be okay with what is staring back at me-or better yet love it. I want to have kids one day. I want to not live in constant fear for my health. I want to go out wiht my friends and eat a noraml meal. i want my life back. Otherwise i will probally kill myself because im not in a good place right now. I am so afraid for my future and for college.

Menstrual irregularities, i am often skipping periods and when i have them they are 3 days max and very light

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