I'd say early-mid 80's.
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This might be of interest, though it doesn't seem to answer that specific question: https://www.thecut.com/article/how-bulimia-became-a-medical-diagnosis.html …
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"For every person that support groups cure, others leave group therapy having developed worse symptoms than those they had when they entered it. Bulimia is so contagious that support groups and ... facilities designed to help patients are also primary spreading agents."
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Here is an interesting video I found on the spread of complex contagions. Scroll down the page and there are more videos on the topic, but doesn’t say how long they last. http://www.coursera.org/learn/networkdynamics/lecture/sZ1lr/3-2-from-simple-to-complex-contagions …
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James Davies has a chapter called ‘Psychiatric Imperialism’ in his 2013 ‘Cracked’ which covers these epidemics. I think he says that bulimia rates increased with coverage of Princess Diana and decreased after her death
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This was on TV in 86, with some fairly big names... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate's_Secret …
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This study seems to think we reached
#PeakBulimia in 1996. http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/186/2/132 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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