Severe dieting often results in periods of reactive binge eating, a phenomenon experienced by one in twenty American women. Responses to these periods may include prolonged fasting, self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and obsessive exercise: all symptoms of bulimia.

This workbook contains tools to help bulimics break the cycle of bingeing and reacting, allowing them to take control of their lives and make positive behavior changes. Practical advice and real-life examples reinforce attitudes and offer encouragement. Discover that it is possible to overcome the disorder and live a happier, more fulfilling life.

Through their cutting-edge research at the internationally renown Toronto Hospital Eating Disorders Programme, the authors of The Overcoming Bulimia Workbook have developed a step-by-step program for recovery whose efficacy has been proven in clinical trials. The authors empower bulimia suffers to take control of their lives, not only by providing information and advice, but by giving them a personalized format with which they can put these new behavior changes into practiceoa process that is critically important for lasting recovery.

This comprehensive guide covers everything from bulimia's symptoms, causes, and risks to how to normalize eating, shift eating-disordered thoughts, build on personal strengths, improve self-esteem, deal with underlying issues, prevent relapse, and understand what medications can help. With many real-life examples, this book also helps readers learn through the experiences of other sufferers how to overcome their disorder and live a happier, more fulfilled life.

What makes recovery so hard? Why might someone seem to be choosing not to recover? Through detailing her own journey to recovery from BPD and Anorexia Nervosa, Gisel Josy is determined to answer these questions, and others, from her perspective as a survivor. Having spent years in psychiatric hospitals, Gisel has learnt that, ultimately, recovery comes down to choice - a patient must make the decision to recover. But the decision doesn't have to be made alone; loved ones can provide the incentive needed to help someone start on the road to full recovery. As a parent or carer, the only thing you want to do in life is to protect your children. This job is made so much harder by eating disorders, but Why Can't You Hear Me? explains that anorexia is nobody's fault; it is a psychiatric illness that infiltrates all aspects of a person's life until they are barely recognisable. There are still so many misinterpretations surrounding issues with mental health, which Gisel is passionate about dispelling. This book is more than just an explanation of eating disorders; it is a heartfelt personal story, which she hopes will impact on many people's lives, for the better.