especially if they have been inadequately treated, and bulimarexic patients may transiently develop anorexia nervosa.”25 Some contrasts between these two conditions are important. “Whereas the anorexic is more successful in appearing disciplined, the bulimarexic patient is overly chaotic.”26 “Although bulimic patients regularly yield to the incorporate wish to gorge, anorectics try desperately, usually unsuccessfully, to deny this wish altogether. A careful history of anorexic patients will often
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