Quotes About Bulimia

#1. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.

Sheila M. Reindl

#2. Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#3. Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Tracey Gold

#4. People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.

Matt Haig

#5. Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it

Brian Cuban

#6. A look of interest, or perhaps doubt, came across his face. "Well," he said, "I'm sure your bulimia was fulfilling some need.

Kathryn Hansen

#7. We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

Marya Hornbacher

#8. We both knew what it was to hurt our bodies. It's a strange reason to bond with someone, but I think we both needed to feel understood, and, even though we couldn't love ourselves, we could love each other.

Melissa C. Water

#9. But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

Deborah Hautzig

#10. A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

Amy Winehouse

#11. I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

Anthony Holden

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

Geneen Roth

#13. For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.

Bipasha Basu

#14. When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

Susie Orbach

#15. yet still I crave the sight of my own hypnotic gaze reflecting out at me from the shared mirror of anorexia and bulimia, number to life and reality, existing only in my self-made tortured state

Carol Lee

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

Cheryl James

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

Emma Forrest

#18. Her behaviors turn her psychic pain, which she fears is not legitimate, into physical pain, which is indisputably real.

Sheila M. Reindl

#19. I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

Michael Stipe

#20. If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me.

Bethany Pierce

#21. It seemed impossible to make an appealing show about bulimia. I mean, it's my story, and even I don't wanna watch that. Plus, everybody told me not to - I like a challenge.

Jessie Kahnweiler

#22. We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

Marya Hornbacher

#23. 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

#24. Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Garry Trudeau

#25. You grow bored of these shrines, and you abandon them
because you know for a fact that you will worship
anything you kneel before.
Like God.
Like cock.
Like porcelain.

Kris Kidd

#26. I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get really thin. Who worries about bulimics? They're just gross.

Marya Hornbacher

#27. So there you have it
my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me.

Sarah Darer Littman

#28. My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction ... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

Nicole Scherzinger

#29. Her smile didn't mean her suffering was over, but when it appeared it was something beautiful to see; a rare flower.

Melissa C. Water

#30. Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

John Prescott

#31. I have something called exercise bulimia, which is where you rid of your calories by over-exercising.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

#32. I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

Marya Hornbacher

#33. Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.

Marya Hornbacher

#34. I can honestly say, with complete disappointment, that I have never purged in my life, because I have what I call a barfing disorder. Every time I puke, even when I'm sick with the flu or from food poisoning, I think I'm going to die. Weird, I know. No disrespect to you, Mary Kate. Rock on.

Kathy Griffin

#35. We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.

Meg Haston

#36. Memorizing facts and then regurgitating them into carefully crafted words is not science people. It's intellectual bulimia. Real science happens when we explore what we don't know. The first law of understanding the human brain and the mind within, is to be an explorer.

Abhijit Naskar

#37. You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

Teresa Lo

#38. She had all the best things wrong with her - incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She's so lucky.

Peter Cameron