Hey LJ
I mean it sounds like your having a pretty rough time atm, i suggest you tell your parents i mean they care and love you so surely they would help, write it down if its hard to talk to them. counselling is really good ask about it at your school as there is a free cousellor at schools which i saw and it helped me i was bulimic for 4 years and i was dead against it but i saw her for 4 months and now i very rarley do it, which is amazing for me, im 16 now and i can see a brighter future not sounding corney Lol
im sure your parents know as a school wouldnt keep it from them as its the law to ring your parents maybe they feel you will just get over this but i dont think any parents really want to believe its happening to there child but honest talking helps, and yeah you have done fantastic dont get yourself down also there is a website 'beat' which is good i suggest you go on it you can email them and they help a lot
however hard it is the sooner you get help the better everything becomes everything becomes clearer and a lot easier to beat this, its just like a phsyical illness and people should respect it like that and people dont so dont be ashamed by it.
try your hardest i wish you all the best wishes and hope ive have sort of helped :D
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i'v been suffering with weight problems 4 about 9 years now!i'm 19.From bulimia 2 anorexia and comfort eating!I hid it very will all this time and only admitted it 2 my mom and dad about a month ago and its the best thing i could have done!I'm not better but i know i will be!i have good and bad days whereas before it was only bad!!I'v learned 2 love myself and all of u shud 2!!Don't ever b embarrassed bout it!But i wud advise all of u 2 seek help as soon as u can!theres so much support out there 4 us!!i feel like i can finally live my life!!!:D
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Hey phebe, im 16 been bulmic for 4 years, and i dont want to upset you but it wouldnt surprise me if your family know what you have been doing you believe yourself to be secretive but really they might know and thought it was a fase or you would grow out of it however hard it is try and talk to them, the dentist may say something about how much they have eroded dont cover up your illness at the end of the day it should be taken as serious as a physical illness, and whats the problem with them knowing surley letting them know that you have a problem isnt a bad thing. Dont be ashamed by it honest i was terrified but the sooner you get help the easier it is too make sense of everything yeah the dentist might not say anything but how long can you go on hiding this diesase, im sure just like me you are worried about your results if your in year 11 but dont get sucked into the hole bulimia thing and make it worse, theres a deeper reason why you do this honest try couselling it really helps.
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i am 13 and i have been bulemic since the end of year six. When i started disapearing before lessons to make myself sick the teachers found out, they persuaded me to see a cousellor and they asked me to tell my parents, but bi told my older sister who is 19 and she has been helping me loads, i stopped doing it for about 4 months and i started putting back on weight but it scared me and i started being sick again, i want private and cofidential help or just a friends everyone is treating me like a physco and i just want some support and someone to let my feelings out to, but i will never tell my parents! PLEASE can someone just say hi, and tell me that im doing well .

Hey Nitta, im 16 I have the same problem i have been bulimic for 4 years believe me it has been one hell of a struggle and my whole family just blank it out i think that my mum specially pretends its not happening i mean who wants a daughter who throws up there food? and i know all you want is them to support you but its probs killing your mum in side knowing that she can not help you or support how you would like, but every family is didffent and deals with issues like yours in all differnt ways maybe you just have to deal with the fact that your mum isnt one of thoes people, instead maybe write down in a letter how you feel, people around us do not appreciate or understand how difficult things have been. it is an illness and deserves the same respect that any physical illness would have. Often people do not understand and so can say things that they feel will be helpful, so unless you sit down with them and try to make them understand what you are suffering from this situation may continue..
The doctor will most probally ask how often you make yourself sick and how you feel take your blood presure may even ask for blood tests im just saying this so you are aware of whats going to happen and its scary but after you feel ok, they may well even suggest a counsellor which i would recomend its bloody scary but in the long run you kinda see why you make yourself sick and how to hopefully prevent it, my family i dont think will ever talk about my sistuation as they all have there own idea and for myself i tend not to underline the problem or i just skim the surface when i used to do counselling but be trueful thats the best and i hope my advice has helped you.
rachel.
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i have been bullimic for nearly 2 years nw. i was a size 10-12 nw i am a 6! i find it very hard to talk about it, my boyfiend does not understand how i carnt eat for over a wk. when i do eat i am sick so i would rather just not eat at all!! i have been to the doctors a few time but all they want me to do is talk to a strainger which i tryed and it made me worse! i didnt realise that other people felt the same way!! x x x

I have been bulimic for 3 years and since then have managed to avoid going to to the dentist, i am 16 now but im am due to go in the next couple of weeks, my mum and two sisters go at the same time and i really dont want them to fund out that way. Will the dentist comment on my teeth as i know they have become alot thinner and sensitive, my glands have swollen and my throat bleeds alot?? Is there a rule or does it depend on the detist??

I recently started purging standing up instead of leaning on my knees. Now my stomach is killing me I begged mum to make an appointment, so I'm seeing the gp on friday. The thing is I tried telling her before I was bulimic and she just told me I was wasting food and not to do it anymore. I was hoping the gp would just figure it out if I said enough of the right stuff cause if it came from them mum would have to realise I have a problem right? :( I just want to get better.

Hi,
Im Not A Bulimic myself.. but a very close friend is… shes anorexic aswell.. shes been out of hospital now for nearly a year after spending nearly a year in.. she was going sooo well for so long and i was so proud of her.. but shes begun to relapse.. i get so scared for her,, she doesnt seem to care and i dont want her to go back to hospital. her mum and dad are so stressed and are finding it hard to cope.. shes now down to 7 stone, at the age of 18. i want to help her but i dont no how. she always wants to go out for dinner but i dont see the point if shes going to throw it back up again .. she does it in my house and i really hate it.. i feel so bad. but i want her to be ok and i would do anything to help her but i dont know what shes going threw and i cant relate to her. so if i could get any help about what i can do to help her get better it would be great. i just want my friend back.
i dont want her to be back in hospital its not nice.
help . thanks

I was bulimic/cutting from 14 to 18, i had been in therapy b4 but not discussed it as i was ashamed, didn't want to appear to my family as attention seeking and hated the thought of putting on weight. Just before my 18th i told them and they were extremerly supportive, i was sent to the Priory and started to recover it's a long process and metally painful for myself and family involved in helping me, I still relapse time to time but i can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I hope those who feel lost and out of control can just go the GP and ask for help it's worth.