Articles of category "Bulimia"

Among all mental illnesses, eating disorders have one of the highest mortality rates. The most serious consequence of bulimia is suicide because of depression and other complications related to severe crises of binging, to malnutrition, dehydration and different metabolic and electrolyte imbalances.

Bulimia is also known as bulimia nervosa and binge and purge syndrome. This is an eating disorder that affects mainly young females from 10 to 25 years old, develops on psychological substrate and can have many serious consequences from malnutrition to suicide. One of the first alarming bulimia symptoms is an obsessive desire to appear thin.