What is bulimia?

What are the symptoms?

What are the causes?

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What are the causes?

There are many causes for someone to use food as a weapon with which to harm themselves.

Some causes are because of sexual and physical abuse in childhood to emotional issues where the use of food takes their minds off certain painful issues or memories.

High achievers who can never live up to the expectations they have of themselves, coupled with low self-esteem, tend to be at risk of developing eating disorders.

The need to control what they eat and how they look could be a reaction to the world they live in, where thin is perceived by many to be the mark of success and beauty and many feel that being thin will give them acceptance and love.

Low levels of serotonin have also been found in people with bulimia, much like the levels found in those with depression so there is an argument that bulimia is an illness where brain chemistry is not stable.

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