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Bulimia 2 USC From Staff Reports "Eating is my escape, I guess, or anything ? am I? " That'3 what Susan said about h year-old USC senior, is attracti Susan is also bulimic. After a hard day, Susan will c She'll eat until there's nothing 1< barely make it to the bathroom.' AT ONE SITTING, Susan sai Mar> hnmlinraprc cnmp frfnr?V sandwiches, a head of cauliflow noodles, a box of cookies, a gall< candy bars, and anything else i her weight by vomiting after her "Sometimes I'll come home i much to eat." she said. At th eating cake mixes out of the bo: baked beans from the can, an prepared food. Kathy, a lovely, slim 20-yeai problem. "Some days I'll do really we rl0*7 Hflinr Ho\rc T'11 liralLr intn uaj v/tii\*k uajo jl 11 vrom mvv everything is yelling at me to ea Both of these women suffer fr as bulimia, and the binge-purge that these women practice dail have said. RESEARCH SHOWS that o women could be bulimic at somt Susan began going on binges iiersen as ail uver-acuiever. n student and dating star athletes she said. Two fellow cheerleaders, w seemed to be able to "eat anyth know their secret," she said. When she found out they wei was curious and interested. "It! didn't see any harm. Besides, I my weight," she said. SUSAN SAID her bulimia seei I'd iust do it on the weekends.. .\ As she became more comfoi binges were more frequent. "1 hate myself if I were fat. I gi worlds," she said. Read th I J Pre-Holiday } 20% J all cosmetic * (offer expire J * }"0N STAGE" Cosmetics and j Nails, Cosmetic S Skin * 765*0250 ^ ....... _ J 6 12 Holly St. * (beside A J.'s * off Devine St.) Mouritaii jj "Climb a moun || regular drink" < > ? ,| cout ii | Free Regul i: | with purcl | Mountain ii ! i: 1 PLsasHKnMMii COU 11 offer av students des Kath But it's all right. I'm not fat really : with sc er eating habits. Susan, a 22- first ti ve, athletic and intelligent, better, Kath 1 1 -4- * oictnn :uiiie nume aim sutn tuning. awvci eft to eat. "Sometimes I can Famih } tirv d she can consume two Big sneaki i frip? n hr?v nf if?p rrpnm Said. rer, a can of chow mein and Alth< )n of ice cream, two or three have \ she can find. Susan controls family binges. friends ind there won't by anything ese times she's resorted to Kath k, jars of peanut butter, cold wasn't d other such substitutes for r-old bulimic, has a similar SI 11. I'll hardly eat a thing all the kitchen, and I feel like i\,j:r0l tit." om an eating disorder known A cycle of eating and vomiting $ati ly is not uncommon, doctors Von for esp. ne in five college-educated * j point in their lives. bul in high school. She described eing a cheerleader, an "A" A i resulted in a lot of pressure, 1? autj ho Susan admired, always ling they wanted. I wanted to in re vomiting every'night, she thei bought it sounded weird, but I say was tired of trying to control B thei con med to feed on itself. "At first tec ou know, beer and pizza.'' rtable with the practice, her ove t really enjoy eating, but I'd f 5by " less I found the best of both j. Hei te Gamecock * W ^ Celebration! * [ OFF i u :s S services J 18 s 12/31/82) * IV I I: hi j | Skin Care, Acrylic I J } Care classes. J jgj I J^j n Climber ;i? I itain for a free H N | | son ??-?-j |: ar Drink i | H laseofa j -jl Climber a ij. B EXPIRES 11-28-82 | |i; W ailableatthe I tmecock jjil lackbar J: 1 scribe overeal y said she began overeating at colleg started by accident," she said. After ai >n?e friends, Kathy found herself physic me, I was r<ca'ly sick. Afterwards, I though." iy said she had dieted "painfully" since 1 is a model, and my mother has alwa^ / pressures forced Kathy to keep her wei E ALWAYS had a sweet tooth, thougl: ng candy bars up to my bedroom at I [>ugh Dotn gins laucea aooui meir eaur cept them a secret from most of the . "My family doesn't know, just som ?...Most of them do it too," Susan said. ly said she has begun telling people aboi nn^mnl " An r? inoalranH uicit hnmp P II171 Midi. V/ll d TYtVI\t?lU V lUiv xviaiv) m. lisorder wid 11 Staff Reports r '. I' ? I' I * ' * ** V" " " ***. * **' + "*; ; binge-purge syndrome of C ng large quantities of food and titing afteirward Is a daily habit t thousands of Americans, e t-cially young women. $ ...til. r iwtw? jwupnis artj hiuicwu wiut v irnia, a serious medical u >rdei\ ti lthough exact data is difficult o find> many college health fwrities say the disorder is b lemic on some campuses. One s five college-educated women d M hA hiilimic At. time in ft r lives, medical authorities \ o ulimics' dilemma comes from r eating habits; they feel a ipeiled to eat, but {eel guilty s ause of the emphasis on thin- ' s. "This out-of-control feeling is f rcome by getting Into control t vomiting," according to David UU^WJ, VI U?J A|UUg ml . every Mond rf&Sft \ n?^ NICE-N NATURAL r*i i\/ k v i\/ BUT AIMY SANDWICH GET 2ND ONE FRE Expires: I 1-23-83 1217 College St. on USC Campus next to Papa Joe': Speck Bring your Gami Pana Joe's aft Sju AnySelc t (We've ( ""new SIUTES ROM >MPUS ting-vomiting ;e. "J guess I was horrified to find < n eating binge controllably. "I told mj :ally ill. "That KaJhy said she is tr felt so much counseling. "I'm realis was living to eat," she! ler teens. "My i/s bevn thin." WHEN ASKED ab ghtdown. replied, "Well, I'm re; everything, I guess I'l i. I remember that strange, though. A home," Kathy Kathy said she feels It's kind of like startii lg habits, they out there (away from c * ' " ?>? a? ?, r: ] ir trienas ana i m trying iu mm e of my good workineonit." The stories of "Susan' it it. "I knew it are true. Their real 1 Cathy said she privacy. Bsoread. rioi ~ ~ B " disorders Clinic at Massachusetts teneral Hospital in Boston. A single, middle class white emale with at least some college ducat ion is the typical bulimic, ccording to the Michael Reese Jenter in Chicago. Bulimics are isualiy highly ambitious, with tear normal weight and a healthy utward appearance. There are many theories about ultima's causes. Some doctors ay bulimics counteract stress or ?r?yUk AaViAAM^MAYlkDA WIUl UMtVUUViMII/IQ vereating* They compensate by omiting or taking laxative verdoses. Bernard Mayer, a psychologist penalizing in eating disorders, aid eating for the bulimic is a 'means of tttscharging impulses of primitive instinctual juaUty...consisting in aggressive, iadistic attack upon an object." rhe subsequent vemiUng is an lay, Wednesday m HWM 11 , ? [URAL I [WIN? STORE 2 I 821 Assembh I AX IK m u 1 NEXT gg Wings J | Seroed N< m Mild, N 9 Medium * or Spicy Hot < W Ji 1 s Unbelievable d ~ Good^All Se ecock ticket stub to er the game and get, OO OFF any size Pi and :ct Imported Beer for Qot 20 Imported Beei COUPON HOURS 12 noon til n PAP N.Y. STYL HWY.aro BILOSHQI problem an empty refrigerator and cried un/ mother everything." vint? tn work out her Droblems with ring^now that I wasn't eating to live; I said. out herself and her future, Susan ady to graduate. Once I get a job and ii work everything out. It's really not .lot of people doit." up till lid 111-. All 11150 ait ltaiij' wunci, ig over, though. I know the pressures ollege) are greater than they are here, other ways to deal with them. I'm ' and "Kathy" presented in this article iames were not used to protect their ctors say "attempted undoing, an emptying out of the object ingested during bulimia," he said> Bulimies often posses? an ofr mnhr) nlKahrtA OWOiVMtH U>VU\* ranging from depression to elation, Mayer said. This radical pattern leads doctors to believe that bulimia is a symptom of an underlying illness: a form of schiwphrenia, Mayer said. Serious effecta of bulimia in elude ulcers, hernias, severe gastric and dental problems, disturbances of the blood's chemical balance and heart attacks. Nutrition counseling, psychiatric analysis* group therapy and medical treatment feave been successful treatments for bulimia. "It's a long road, but people can function normally again," Herfcog said. and Friday. i C TWINES r St. 254-9283 II NIVERSITY INN I TO COLISEUM J Seruice I 254-9283 ason! 1 ? | zza i&n >00 I 'S Now!'? 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