--- title: Symptoms description: Internationally acclaimed recovery site focused on eating disorders, moving from fragility to power, developing confidence at work and in relationships, and narcissistic abuse recovery. Created by Joanna Poppink, MFT canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/symptoms/page-7 language: en-GB date: 2012-08-30T02:06:01Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/symptoms/page-7. markdown-tokens: 1031 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/symptoms/page-7. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Here you will find articles that address various emotional, physical, behavioral and spiritual symptoms that are often part of the eating disorder experience. To contact Joanna, to make a psychotherapy appointment or to arrange a video consultation through Doxy.me, write: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Details Category: [Symptoms](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/symptoms/) ***This story is my attempt to bring understanding to this painful, desperate and all too common experience in the life of a bulimic woman. It could be triggering. But I wrote this because articulating the extent of a bulimic episode in detail can help a woman know she can be understood and accepted. If she can feel known in her darkest hours, she may experience a new sense of hope and reach for her recovery.*** **Sexual Encounters as Part of Bulimic Episode** Day 7 p.m. You are out the door. With firm, fast steps you head for your car. blood surging through your veins, heart pounding, stomach vibrating, electrical energy pouring out of your cells, you can almost hear your body humming. You get in the car, turn the ignition and love hearing and feeling the engine roar. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/symptoms/full-bulimia-episode-story-in-5-parts-caution-could-betriggering-part-2i) Details Category: [Symptoms](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/symptoms/) Developing a healthy respect for your body is part of eating disorder recovery. The words are rather directive and cold, don't you think? But the meaning is anything but. I got a big reminder of this yesterday when I looked at the close-up of the X-rays of my lungs taken using the most up-to-date technology with a pulmonary specialist. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/symptoms/body-image-self-love-self-respect-and-tenderness) Details Category: [Symptoms](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/symptoms/) Portia de Rossi is helping countless people gain a more accurate perspective on the agonies of living with anorexia. [*People* ](https://people.com/health/it-got-better-portia-de-rossi-had-an-eating-disorder/)is running an article describing part of an interview with her. In it, she raises the important issue of secrets. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/symptoms/portia-de-rossi-anorexia-and-secrets) Details Category: [Symptoms](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/symptoms/) ![anorexia to obesity and back, weight spinning like a dizzying carnival ride](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/carnival-1722781_640.jpg)*Anorexia to obesity to anorexia again becomes a life of spinning like a carnival wheel. It makes you dizzy. It makes life a blur. It looks like a lot of action but gets you nowhere. This is a true story, written in her own words, of a woman getting off that wheel and finding wisdom.* by Kym, guest writer My first bout of anorexia came when I was 30. I grew up being underweight. I believe I didn't get enough nutritional food, but it had more to do with my parents' income than emotional or compulsive behaviors. Starting at the age of 22, gaining weight hasn't been a problem. Having food available and never having had to learn to restrain my eating, I found myself moving up and up the scale until I reached the “obese” level by the age of 25. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/symptoms/anorexia-obese-woman-journey)