It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when I first experienced symptoms. It feels like I’d been living with binge eating disorder as long as I could remember.

I've lived with binge eating disorder for about 30 years. I used to think I'd live with it for the rest of my life. But I've found that recovery is possible.

'Binge eating? Can't you just get over that with will power?' No matter what anyone says, you're suffering from a real disorder and deserve help.

Read the latest blogs on bulimia. Written by those with personal experience.

You have to learn how to live again and, like with any lessons, you often have to fail to learn the best way or the right way...

I guess my eating disorder began pretty generically. I had booked a girls’ holiday and didn’t want to feel uncomfortable in a bikini, so about six weeks before I was due to embark on a fun-filled week in the sun, the ‘holiday diet’ began.

I was 12 years old when I first made myself sick. Looking back, I can’t remember why I did it, but I had no idea how quickly it would take over my life.

My head was constantly filled with self-loathing thoughts. I couldn't concentrate on anything other than hating the skin I was in.

Natalie shares her recovery from bulimia and says there is hope. With the right support and education, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Writing from a position of almost seven years symptom-free from my once old friend bulimia nervosa, and fully recovered, I read all these stories with such a tangible sadness. Everything described is so horribly familiar at the same time as feeling like a lifetime ago.

Bulimia has been the devil on my shoulder for the best part of 25 years. This year is the first time I’ve stood up to the devil and said enough is enough.

I'm now pregnant and suffering from Hypermeresis Gravidarum (HG), which is an extreme form of morning sickness.

Jasmine shares her experience of bulimia recovery and how this journey has been one of growth, resilience, and self-discovery.

Francesca shares her experience of how receiving an autism diagnosis has helped her in her recovery from bulimia.

Read the latest blogs on OSFED (other specified feeding or eating disorder). Written by those with personal experience.

My daughter became unwell in her teens with what we now know was OSFED: Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder.

10 helpful things to say to someone with an eating disorder as knowing what to say to someone can be tricky.

Some would be shocked and consider it a waste of NHS money if I told you I spent some sessions just sobbing or in angry silence, but that was what I needed.

Approaching the end of my psychotherapy sessions I am so grateful for finally receiving the correct help. I remember being completely convinced that I was going to be laughed out of therapy and told ‘you’re fine, you’re not ill enough yet, what are you doing here?’

From the age of 14 I developed consciousness and insecurities about the way I looked. I was surrounded by a family who were influenced by ‘Slimming World’ and other dietary groups, which reflected on the way I perceived not only myself, but food as well.