If you suspect you suffer from bulimia it is important not to follow the advice of a friend, but you have to seek help in people who can help you heal from eating disorder.
There are many specialized structures in disorders of nutrition and diet spread throughout the Italian territory are ready to give you support.
Following the diagnosis of bulimia nervosa it is determined the treatment to which you will be subjected, depending on the severity of the case.
There are four levels of treatment:
- Outpatient: is the excellent therapeutic in 60% of patients. It makes use of a multidisciplinary approach in the treatment phase and provides for an active involvement of the family;
- day hospital: you will be going on a designated day at the structure to carry out checks, psychological activities, nutritional rehabilitation, work with family;
- hospitalization (lifesaver): is necessary when the patient needs continuous monitoring. It provides both a nutritional intervention, through artificial feeding, and a psychological one, motivating the patient to a subsequent treatment. Restored the clinical condition, hospitalization ends and starts the rehabilitation treatment in a center outside the hospital;
- residential and semi-residential treatment: they are outside hospital structures where there is the rehabilitation. The duration of treatment varies from 3 to 5 months and allows an improvement in body weight and behavior.