The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 17, 1982, Page 4, Image 4
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
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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
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Both of these women suffer fr
as bulimia, and the binge-purge
that these women practice dail
have said.
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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.
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binges. friends
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in high school. She described
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i resulted in a lot of pressure, 1?
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ho Susan admired, always
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re vomiting every'night, she thei
bought it sounded weird, but I say
was tired of trying to control B
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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^
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E ALWAYS had a sweet tooth, thougl:
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. "My family doesn't know, just som
?...Most of them do it too," Susan said.
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find> many college health
fwrities say the disorder is b
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five college-educated women d
M hA hiilimic At. time in ft
r lives, medical authorities \
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ulimics' dilemma comes from
r eating habits; they feel a
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ause of the emphasis on thin- '
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was living to eat," she!
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ghtdown. replied, "Well, I'm re;
everything, I guess I'l
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home," Kathy Kathy said she feels
It's kind of like startii
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The stories of "Susan'
it it. "I knew it are true. Their real 1
Cathy said she privacy.
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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
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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."
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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."
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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
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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.
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