Bulimia Quote by Sheila M. Reindl

We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that…

— Marya Hornbacher

“A bulimic person's shame may lead her to try to hide not only her eating-disorder behaviors but also her basic needs and yearnings. She…

— Sheila M. Reindl

“Nothing in the world scares me as much as bulimia. It was true then and it is true now. But at some point, the…

— Marya Hornbacher

“As she continually disregards and overrides her body's signals of hunger, fullness, and fatigue, a bulimic woman becomes increasingly disconnected from her subjective experience.…

— Sheila M. Reindl

“A bulimic person may be so disconnected from her experience that she does not even know what she needs or wants. If she does…

— Sheila M. Reindl

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

— Cheryl James

People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing,…

— Marya Hornbacher

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

— Russell Brand

For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

— Geneen Roth

“Eating disorders are insidious and subtly manipulative. The behaviors that initially feel like relief are the same ones that will eventually ruin you.”

— Brittany Burgunder

The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.

— Emma Forrest

“...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia…

— Geneen Roth