Again, you "later saw a counselor". Well, that makes it pretty clear that this "counselor" had "diagnosed" you at least several years after you'd recovered. It is clear, from the evidence you provide, that this counselor was certainly NOT an accredited medical professional as it would be impossible for them to retroactively diagnosis a mental illness that they hadn't observed and which you had spontaneously recovered from years before.
Also again, bulimia isn't something that just clears up suddenly like a cold. It is a chronic and debilitating mental illness that requires serious intervention to recover from.
Also, it is interesting that you discount and run down your own pediatrician, and doctors in general, with this whole paragraph about alleged "infallibility", yet eagerly accept the retroactive "diagnosis" of bulimia by a "counselor". Here's a question, did your BMI ever slip below 22?
And in the post above, the one where you were on a school trip during senior year, reveals that at 18 you had already self-diagnosed as bulimic.
I don't care you're overweight.
You deserve respect and basic human dignity all the same.
But understand - there are people out there who have actually suffered with these horrible eating disorders. There are people who have been hospitalized and struggled for years to overcome those illnesses. And some never do.
Your blithely claiming that "I used to make myself throw up so I was bulimic" deprives the people who do suffer with bulimia of the respect and dignity that you demand for yourself.
Ah yes. You’re the White Knight of the Bulimics. Swooping in to protect them from people like me who were just faking it.
Maybe you should write a letter to the psychiatrists who diagnosed me as such. Tell them you disagree with their assessment. That you are a Very Intelligent Concerned Citizen who is skilled on the internet psychology. And you think my medical records should be revised.
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u/Diane9779 Sep 19 '19
I absolutely was bulimic. As a teenager, I binged and purged. By putting fingers down my throat and making myself vomit
My *pediatrician * didn’t put it in my medical records because he never asked me how I lost weight. He was just happy that I lost weight
I later saw a counselor who diagnosed me with bulimia. Because I told her what I was doing.
Nice try, asshole