Talk:Bulimia nervosa

Adding a link
Sorry, I'm a bit new to Wpedia, but I believe that I must post a link here before adding it to the main page.

My link is Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association, I design and manage the site on a volunteer basis (being a recovered sufferer from anorexia and bulimia myself).

Although we are a rather localised charity I would hope that the information provided by the site would be useful to a much wider audience.

I dont think that the information its really bad

I appreciate that others may remove the listing if they don't feel that it's appropriate to be included here but I thought that I'd post in up just in case and have also done so in a few other eating disorder related articles.

I hope that this is ok. Feel free to email me if there's a problem (contact details are on the website).

With Kind Regards Paul

at risk groups
citing link broken for "the highly intelligent and/or high-achievers"

Also, the statement claiming that men are as likely as women to suffer the disease in wholly inaccuarte and should be amended to correspond with the 90%/10% to female sufferers estimate which is widely used by eating disorder support groups and mediacl set-ups.

More Editing
I have made a number of edits and re-worded a few parts of it. Is it wise to remove toe personal advice though? Bear in mind that a number of people with bulimia may look it up and it may inspire them to seek help —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stui (talk • contribs) 4 June 2006 (UTC)

References to treatment centres?
I've noticed there are a few references to treatment centres in there, probably because of the original source material. Is it worth taking out these references seeing as Wikipedia is pretty much an international site & phrases like "...available in this country" don't make sense otherwise?

Yes, just where is 'this country' anyway, dammit? There are 193 of them. And why are there only listings for centres in the USA and UK?

Maybe it's because the only contributing parties to this article reside in either the UK or US? Just a thought... Oh, and there are 194 countries if you count Taiwan.

Two small things...
Someone needs to go through this article, replacing every "her" (the personal pronoun for the bulimic) with "they", "one" or "a sufferer of bulimia". Feminising the issue only makes it less acessible to male readers or sufferers, as well as potentially sounding POV.

"Characteristically, those with bulimia nervosa feel more shame and out of control with their behaviors, as the anorexic meticulously controls her intake, a symptom that calms her anxiety around food as she feels she has control of it, naïve to the notion that it, in fact, controls her." - I don't like this.

The reference to the television programme also seems fairly ludicrous in what is essentially a medical article.

Yet another wrong statement
"Every bulimic is completely different in "how much" they purge. Some binge, some don't." WRONG! The sine qua non of bulemia is overeating, i.e., binging, which can vary in intensity and severity. It's the purging that is optional. Compensatory mechanisms are usually in place, but they are not always purgatory; there are "purging" and "non-purging" types, with non-purging types compensating by fasting or with exercise, for example.

added link
I have added a link to beat, the UKs national eating disorder charity.

Added pronunciation for Bulimia Nervosa
I'd like to propose to add the pronunciation for bulimia nervosa in the introductory sentence- /buˈli·mi·ə (nərˈvoʊ·sə). This will ensure that readers know how to correctly pronounce the disorder.

Bulimia Diagnosis Additions
Hello fellow Wikipedians:

The additions I desire to make to the "Diagnosis" section of the Bulimia nervosa article are related to the revised DSM-5 diagnosis of bulimia nervosa, and the lifetime prevalence of the disorder. The diagnostic criteria for this disorder in the DSM-5 is similar to the earlier version, DSM-IV-TR; however, the duration of binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors is not mentioned, which is leaves out valuable information regarding a proper diagnosis. The revised diagnostic criteria is necessary for effective diagnoses and education on the subject. Also, the lifetime prevalence of this disorder was not recognized, which is a valuable statistic for researchers and readers alike in order to gain perspective on how many suffer from bulimia nervosa.

--Njpiche (talk) 02:26, 19 April 2015 (

Unify with the Spanish wiki
As I published in the Talk of the Spanish wiki, I tried to merge the two page (es-Bulimia, en-Bulimia Nervosa ) links on the language of each other in the wiki data, and I get an error that states the following:

''Could not save due to an error. The save has failed. Site link eswiki:Bulimia is already used by item Q180913. Perhaps the items should be merged and one of them deleted? Request deletion of one of the items at d:Wikidata:Requests for deletions, or ask at d:Wikidata:Interwiki conflicts if you believe that they should not be merged.''

I'm relatively new, and I couldn't find a way to merge the two wikidata pages.

Wiki Education assignment: Psychology Capstone
— Assignment last updated by Mksearcy (talk) 01:43, 2 October 2022 (UTC)