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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why wouldn’t you? It’s a sickness. Nothing to do with you, and lying about doctor’s appointments is not your business. [/quote]

For me, it was that a co-worker was obsessed about food. She almost seemed to want to fatten other people up. And she had a LOT of emotion invested in "just being genetically this way" while we could hear her throwing up after parties, or see her gulping liters of bone broth. It's not pleasant to be around. [/quote]

Bulimia and anorexia (as above said, restrictive-type anorexia) tend to co-occur with different personality traits.

https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/expert-opinion-eating-disorders-and-ocd/

[quote]Anorexics also often exhibit overvalued ideation, cognitive distortions, such as all-or-none thinking, and attempts to gain control of their environment. For bulimics, the need to feel relieved of the obsessive guilt and shame following binges causes them to compulsively purge the food they consumed, repeating the cycle over and over again. Here too, perfectionism an excessive desire for social approval or acceptance, and bouts of anxiety or depression play a major role.
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