Bulimia | Testimony of a Recovered Female Bulimic

Sandy Fertman contributes to Teen Magazine, from which this article is taken.

Summary: The author relates the story of an anonymous recovered bulimic whom she calls Kelly. Kelly’s bout with bulimia started when she was a teen. Eating, bingeing, and disgorging were her ways of compensating for her lack of self-esteem. On one particular occasion, she suffered a massive loss of body liquid, and as a result Kelly had a heart attack. After hospitalization, Kelly started to seek professional help. However, it was not until her third heart attack that...

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