How will I feel as I recover from bulimia?
Throughout therapy, you will have a greater sense of true self-control, true autonomy, a sense of competence, a feeling that one is managing one's life in a more healthy way. Then, hopefully, with greater strength, restoration of vitality, and actual better appearance, friends and individuals will say, "you know, you look great, you really look well," Not that you look skinny or thin, or, "look how thin you look," and so on, but you really look vibrant. There would be an improvement in schoolwork, in your academic work, in your professional work, and I would say a general feeling of competent rewarding self-management, that has positive consequences for you now, rather than a secretive, 'doing-it-my-way' type-thing that you have before.