bulimia nervosa

The misuse of laxatives, however, has been associated with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa—often as a compensatory behavior for binge eating.

Eating disorders, which often start in adolescence, include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorders and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder.

In another form of binge eating, bulimia nervosa, people don’t keep the food down; they force themselves to expel it via vomiting or laxatives.

There wasn't the literature or the knowledge around in those days about what bulimia nervosa was.

Lyn, who has struggled with bulimia nervosa since they were 15 years old, said their weight has fluctuated throughout their career.