If you're battling bulimia nervosa, keeping yourself from purging after binge eating is often difficult. In my experience, many people find that holding the food without purging seems unbearable, and that they can think of nothing else. But they only think that until they successfully keep themselves from purging for the first time.
Here are some possibilities of ways to halt the purging train.
- Write in a journal: Talk to those voices that are telling you to purge!
- Call a friend: You stop the process and fight isolation as well.
- Tell someone who's there with you: I won't pretend this isn't hard to do, but I believe it's healing.
- Pray: In some people, prayer is meaningful and the change in focus can be powerful.
