[somerville]

First of all, it's spelled bulimia, not bulemia.

Bulimia has its roots in psychological stressors. Superficially, a bulimic wants to lose weight because she or he thinks they're overweight. But it has deeper causes. In general, bulimics feel they have no control over their lives or their bodies. Or they have problem with feelings of anger and don't feel they can express it. On the outside, they are smiling and act perfect and can fool people for a long time - they present a picture that nothing is wrong. A woman who became the first person at my college to become a Rhodes Scholar was bulimic. Another woman I know did indeed die from being bulimic. She was 23.

The binge/purge cycle is addictive and it also becomes a weird way to manage anxiety and rage, and also to distract yourself from it. Ultimately, at some point, your life becomes all about getting the next "Fix" or binge/purge.

Some people also binge/purge through overuse of laxatives. That can really deplete you of potassium. There was an article in New York Magazine last year about a woman who took 100 laxatives a day and died from potassium deficiency.

Anyway, if you want to read more about it, just google "bulimia" (not "bulemia.")

One last point - if Michael Schiavo was as controlling as everyone says he was, it would make sense that Terri would become bulimic. Her body was the one thing he couldn't control. Also and I don't know if this is true- I read that he said if she ever got heavy again, he would leave her.

I'm not blaming Terri for her bulimia. I feel sympathy. It's a horrible horrible disease.

[DJ MacWoW]

Terri didn't have bulimia and no doctor ever testified that she did. She was under a doctors care in order to get pregnant.On page 6 it states Terri was under the care of a physician in order to become pregnant. On page 27, MS states that bulemia was never proved

Michael Schiavo, 1/2000 Direct Testimony: states bulemia was never proved see p 27. (large file)

Michael Schiavo, 1999 Pretrial Deposition: testifies Terri was not strugglying with weight and had healthy appetite see p 15. (large file)

Terri did not have a heart attack.

Michael's hired physician, Bambakidis, testified Terri never had heart attack

[T'wit]

>> I read that he said if she ever got heavy again, he would leave her.

Read his testimony. He thought she should be a little heavier, not lighter. And he did deny under oath that she had bulimia. That is an admission contrary to his own interest, so we may take it to be true.

[miss marmelstein]

Please, please give me your evidence that she had bulimia.