I got to say that the amount of ignorance coming from alot of people here is heart-shattering. I'm a 23 year old man whose been bulimic for 2 years now and it's the hardest thing I've ever had to go through. Recovery is a bitch and yeah the action of "just stop sticking your fingers down your throat" is physically easy but emotionally it's the hardest thing ever. IT IS a menatal disorder, and alot of men do suffer from it, and not just homosexual men, heterosexual men as well, it does not discriminate. At the end of the day, it has so little to do with actual food and more about control. Shit, I always wonder why I'm emotionally linked to food, and remember it's so much easier to sit there and judge someone when your not in their shoes.

Ignore the people saying ydi and your mum is right. Those people have no idea what it's like. I'm never been anorexic or bulimic, but I'm not going be ignorant and insist 'ohh but it's stupid, and just don't throw up.' I hope your mum starts to understand how you feel and help you. And congrats for telling someone and trying to get help for yourself. Hope you get better soon. Good luck :)

Wow look at all the ignorant assholes. :( OP: I hope you get the help you need.

YDI for being bulimic in the first place. My idea of why people are bulimic is because they are too lazy to exercise like THE REST OF US!!!

Oh. My. God. That is one of the meanest things I've ever seen a mom say. FYL, I hope you can get treatment (using her money). Good Luck!

Bulimia nervosa is not a choice. It is a serious mental disorder. Saying "It's not that hard to stop shoving your fingers down your throat" just makes you sound uneducated, it's as hard to stop as self injuring or smoking, and just as destructive and dangerous. "YDI. Stop wasting food. Every time you make yourself throw up just think of the starving kids in 3rd world country." That's like saying every time you don't go to bed think about the insomniacs. Seriously, guilt alone won't make somebody stop doing something. Saying these things makes somebody sound uneducated, bulimia nervosa is a serious mental disorder, similar to depression and bipolar disorder. Telling someone to just stop making themselves throw up is like telling a depressed person to just be happy. OP: Congratulations on telling somebody. That can be the hardest part.

I came back to say that I hope all the stupid people here saying YDI see someone with bulimia and recognize what a diffiult mental disease it is. I haven't had it, but look it up on wikipedia. It is a mental disease.

#105, you're a bitch. You're the one that needs to grow up because you are obviously very immature. You don't know the whole story. You don't know that she hid it from her mother. And by the way, if you knew anything at all about bulimia, you would know that it involves intense guilt and shame. This would make it difficult to tell her mother. In response to your number four, many bulimics first try to starve themselves but find that they are unable to do it. So they decide to throw up the food because they believe that they can still enjoy it without gaining weight. It is untrue, but that is their thinking. Number six, congrats, you seem to have a pretty good life. Not perfect, because you are for some reason unable to comprehend anyone's reactions to things that go wrong. Not everyone has all of those good things. And she wasn't whining or complaining. She was asking for help and support. Something that is very responsible and mature. Something that you are really lacking. "YDI!!! Get some help and stop crying about it!!! You wasted pounds and pounds of her food... so naturally she yells at you a tiny bit to tell you how she feels about it... I think it's a fair ******* trade-off you whiny little prick, don't you?!" Ok, what the hell?? She was trying to get help, HENCE TELLING HER MOM. If her mom was caring, she wouldn't yell at her about the food, she would care about her mental disorder. Just because someone has a disorder doesn't mean that suddenly everyone is allowed to treat them horribly. It is quite obvious that you know NOTHING at all about bulimia. So why don't you just shut up. I hope you never have children because you would be a horrible parent.

I can Not WAIT For the Staff to shut down the comments on this one...

WAAAAAWAAAAWAAAA cry me a ******* river. "Look at me, I've got a DISORDER". Stop whoring yourselves out for attention. See a therapist or kill yourselves and improve the gene pool.