How do you comfort someone with bulimia?
“I love you / I care about you.” Let them know that they’re not, let them know that they’re loved and cared about. Don’t let anyone forget. Be an ally in this extraordinary fight against a dark corner of someone’s mind. Everyone deserves a full recovery.
What do you say to someone who suffers from bulimia?
5 Things to Say When Someone Has an Eating Disorder:
- “I know this is difficult, but I am proud of you.”
- “You are worth more than your eating disorder.”
- “I might not understand, but if you need someone to talk to I will help as much as I can.”
- “Let’s do ____ together.”
- “I trust/believe you.”
What it’s like living with bulimia?
People with bulimia often have a preoccupation with food and eating as well as an obsession with body shape and weight. This obsession can lead them to develop compulsive behaviors with food, weight, and eating. Nearly 33\% of people with bulimia also live with OCD, estimates the NEDA.
What to feed someone who refuses to eat?
Some examples:
- Nutritious soups – enhanced with cream, olive oil, or pureed meats and veggies.
- Healthy smoothies – add bananas, fruit, full-fat yogurt, or veggies like carrots and spinach.
- Hot cocoa.
- Full-fat milk.
- Milkshakes – good quality ice cream is better than eating nothing!
How can I help my spouse struggling with bulimia?
As a spouse, educating yourself about the facts is an important first step in understanding and caring for someone struggling with bulimia. An eating disorder is an illness that causes serious disturbances to every day diet, characterized by extreme emotions, attitudes and behaviors relating to weight and food issues.
How do you deal with a partner with an eating disorder?
Support your partner. It is easy to become overprotective or policing, or withdrawn and silent, if you are dealing with a partner with an eating disorder. You might find yourself questioning every food decision they make, or conversely, avoiding the topic altogether for fear of saying the “wrong” thing.
What is bulimia nervosa?
Bulimia nervosa is a serious and potentially life-threatening eating disorder with recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by compensating behaviors such as self-induced vomiting.
How do eating disorders affect romantic relationships?
Romantic relationships require honesty, vulnerability and intimacy from both partners in order to be healthy and successful, and the very nature of eating disorders erodes these crucial relationship elements. In an article in Psychology Today, Carrie Gottlieb, PhD, talks about the effects eating disorders often have on relationships.