Oct 30 2008
“You don’t look like you have an eating disorder…”
I want to smack people that say this, I’ve even had a doctor say this to me, its the dumbest thing you can say to a bulimic. For me it reinforced the idea that I wasn’t thin enough, I wasn’t doing something right, and if I didn’t look like I had an eating disorder then it couldn’t be hurting me because I looked healthy.
Well now I know that’s not true. Bulimia is a tricky little bitch in the fact that sufferers typically don’t look like there’s anything wrong with them, unlike anorexia which makes itself known sooner rather than later. I was an active bulimic for nearly 8 years before anyone knew because no, I don’t look like I have an eating disorder. The only reason it became known is because my hair started falling out, I started blacking out, and I had told my husband.
If someone you know comes to you and tells you they are bulimic get them help, don’t say they don’t look sick…it could kill them.
