Customer Reviews
Added perspective - By: W. Jarvis, 30 Jul 2006 
This book is a hands on work book. It contains various exercises & tasks to help break the cycle of bulimia. By no means a cure, it can certainly help you to stand back from the disorder & see it from a different perspective.
The book helps you to analyse your thoughts, feelings & actions & offers meaningful & practical ways to help.I'm sure many of you know how to overcome the disorder, but actuallly doing it is a different matter. This book breaks down what you need to do into smalller parts & it explains how you will feel & reassures you that its OK.
Aspects of the book are impossible to digest (pardon the pun) for a long term sufferer. For example, the book encourages you to incorporate 'risky foods' into day to day life. This for me is impossible (but I'm working on it). However exercises such as evaluating your self esteem,challlenging your pre-conceptions, as well as techniques for thought management were alll very helpful.
I am sure the book would be extremely beneficial for shorter term sufferers, who perhaps do not understand the why's & wherefores, but for those with a longer history with the illness many of the concepts will already have been tried & will already be understood. It can also seem a little patronising in parts.
At the very least, the book has helped me view my illness as simply that. It has taught me that bulimia is not who i am, it is just something I have. After over 17 years with bulimia, giving it this sort of perspective is a major milestone to overcoming it.
The writers of the book also offer comforting reassurance & they obviously understand the cycles, the effects & the thought processes of having bulimia. It is reassuring to know that other people feel the same & that there are people who understand. It was good to be able to identify myself with many of the thoughts, feelings, symptoms & behaviours described in the book. I imagine it would also be a good insight into the illness for the friends & family of sufferers because it explains how the illness affects you both physicallly & mentallly.
The book is not a cure & if you are not ready to face the difficulties of overcoming the illness then don't bother buying it. It is hard to follow the workbook & will require an extreme amount of will power to accept the challlenges the book sets out. If you are ready however, i would recommend buying it because i think that everyone would find some parts helpful & inspirational.
Hope it helps.
This book has not left my sight since I received it! - By: N Nikbakht, 07 Jun 2004 
This is the most effective, honest, invaluable & accessible (Bulimia) self help book I have read to this date. The language is friendly, uncomplicated & extremely sympathetic without being patronising. The exercises were particularly well designed, helpful & thought provoking. I found this book to be supportive & caring & recommend it to anyone who might be suffering form this debilitating condition. If you feel trapped in a life-cycle dictated by Bulimia, this book will give you the tools to find your way out.
