Bulimia Paper

Bulimia with Andrew My client Andrew suffers from Bulimia. He tends to eat a lot, and purposefully makes himself throw up. He will take laxatives if he has some when he needs them as well. He will also try to effectively exercise to try and work off the weight. Andrew plays a lot of video games, and watches a lot of movies. As he plays and watches, he continues to eat excessively. Whenever he goes out to eat, he orders way too much food. Then once he sits down with the food, he feels like he has to eat it all. Andrew often gets bullied at school. His parents are also overweight. He was born with a disease that made him overweight. This may have caused the disease. Andrew felt like eating was a way to forget about the bullies. He ate a lot …show more content…
Some medication we could start Andrew on would be antidepressants. Both professional therapy and antidepressants might be able to help reduce incidents of binging, purging, and also help him recover from bulimia. Therapy and antidepressants don’t really have a set time. It could be a long term treatment, unless Andrew starts to make progress earlier than expected. It could take a couple weeks, or even a couple months. Some clients need to do this process for over a year. The therapy I will use for Andrew is cognitive therapy. By using cognitive counseling, this will help him learn how to eat three meals and two snacks a day, and avoid unhealthy diets. My goal is to figure out what triggers Andrew’s binge eating. Whether it’s emotional or physical needs. We would try and reduce concern about his self image. I would take about his body weight, and his shape. Together we would try and develop a routine that would prevent further relapses. Cognitive deals with the brain, and that is why I chose this therapy. “Albert Ellis came up with the Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). This Revealed the absurdity of people’s self-defeating thinking will change their self-defeating feelings and enable healthier