Posted by Maxime on October 21, 2007, at 19:40:59
In reply to Re: do hospitals ever help? » Maxime, posted by Squiggles on October 21, 2007, at 15:10:20
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> > It's an eating disorder behaviour that doesn't work, but you lose water weight so the scale does go down. Does more harm than good. Once you start to abuse them, it's hard to stop.
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> > Maxime
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> I'd be afraid of an electrolyte disturbance,
> and the drugs going up. For disorders like
> anorexia and bulimia, lithium is a good drug
> and it can be taken in small non-bipolar amounts.
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> SquigglesPeople have died from abusing them. But when you have an ED you don't really "fear" much. You know that your behaviours can kill you, but you don't care ... or sometimes, you wish they would kill you.
Lithium was not good for and I am bipolar type 2.
Maxime
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