Hollie Hughes

When I was at my worst suffering from my eating disorder, I didn't dare to seek treatment. Why? Because I was of what people would consider an average weight. I firmly believed that the doctors would laugh at me and send me home.

When I finally caved and spoke to a psychiatrist, I was shocked to be diagnosed with bulimia.

Thing was, I had never made myself throw up. How could I have bulimia? I thought they had misunderstood something.

But eating disorders can come in so many forms. With #bulimia, the throwing up is not a criteria that needs to be met to get the diagnose. It's having a repetitive pattern of binge eating and then trying to compensate for that behavior in some way.

For me, that meant eating two pizzas, a bag of chips, some sandwiches and a whole lot of soda in a very short time when my anxiety got too much to bear, and then trying not to eat for a couple of days.