Word: bulimias
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...Carolyn Bartholomew, a close friend. It may be that the impetuous princess, despairing of the prince's love, got sick of all those saccharine tomes and decided to get her real story out. The result is avidly pro-Diana. But was it worth it -- publicizing the distasteful bouts with bulimia, the pitiful suicidal gestures, the shouting matches in which she shows up as a fishwife...
...third Gordon daughter, Sheila, experiments with LSD, marries her high school sweetheart, dumps him and begins a six-year course of psychotherapy. Ricky, who is gay, has a tormented childhood and suffers from LSD flashbacks and bulimia. A musician and composer, he is also a passionate believer in New Age fads, especially the healing powers of crystals. He has watched several friends die of AIDS and has no intention of finding out whether he is infected...
...master molecule of more than just depression. This stress- related substance is also elevated in people suffering from obsessive- compulsive disorders and eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. Equally intriguing is the fact that the same drugs used to treat depression are effective against all these conditions and against panic attacks as well. Some researchers have therefore concluded that the diverse disorders may in fact be linked. "Depression may be only the tip of the iceberg of a family of dysfunctions," says James Hudson, a psychiatrist at Harvard...
Never mind that the most sensational parts are among the oldest information. Morton makes much of Diana's bulimia, usually a disease of young girls who follow binge eating with self-induced vomiting in order to stay slender. But Diana's painfully thin phase goes back to the early '80s, after Prince William's birth. Some of the material sounds farfetched, including an account of her throwing herself down a flight of steps in view of the Queen Mother...
YOUNG women in America are beset by what might be considered a plague. According to medical estimates, as many as 20 percent of female adolescents suffer from the eating disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. But "eating disorders" is a misnomer; these conditions are actually psychological disorders finding physical manifestations...