In the novel, Charlie said that it seems Craig fails to listen to her, as he always seems "distracted". He also noticed that Craig seemed more interested in himself than he was in Sam. Nevertheless, Sam stayed in a relationship with Craig and believed he was 'the One'.
This quickly led to Charlie and Sam having a bit of an unofficial relationship before Sam headed off to college. Sam's friends are very important to her, particularly Mary Elizabeth , who helped her through the rough patches of her life. She quickly becomes very close with Charlie, who looks up to her and loves her. She is also friends with Bob and Alice. Sam has a very compassionate and strong bond with Charlie, taking him under her wing.
She helps him open up physically and emotionally and shows him new music, helping cement their gay bond. They first meet at a football game when Charlie comes to sit with Sam and Patrick. Being spewed by a celebrity playing a lead role for a movie geared towards the mostly impressionable youth, this statement can be quite harmful. This is just one of the many examples of how the media problematically portrays bulimia nervosa , and, in this article, we shall examine the ways it is misrepresented.
When bulimia nervosa is shown in media, the portrayal tends to glamorize and romanticize the condition, rather than show its grim realities to the audience. Some may argue that this is because the truth of bulimia can be too raw for the tone of the plot, so creators have to wrap up its symptoms in a more palatable package. However, this approach could immensely downplay the ramifications of bulimia nervosa and leave young viewers with unrealistic or even glorified views of the condition, and eating disorders in general.
Instead of showing the unique ways it could manifest for each person, the media often presents bulimia nervosa to have a fixed set of symptoms, as well. It is also rare to see a bulimic in media seeking proper treatment for bulimia nervosa and recovering in their own way. Because of this, people with or without the disorder are given little or inaccurate information about the true nature of bulimia, and the various ways it can present in anyone and how to recover from it.
Bulimia nervosa indiscriminately affects people no matter their age, race, gender or size. But you would scarcely find a bulimic character in media who is not a young, skinny, rich Caucasian woman, obsessed with fashion magazines and hoping to be as glamorous as runway models.
This poor representation of diversity can isolate people with eating disorders and keep them from seeking professional help.
Bulimics who do not fit the profile media has set may be estranged from messages of hope about treatment and recovery from this condition. Woven together, these watered-down interpretations form an image of bulimia as the easy weight loss tactic of young white women, with minimal side effects, as well as a recurrent condemnation of the type of person who develops it.
In my own case, bulimia developed out of months of food restriction, during a period of depression I felt helpless to overcome. After half a year, my face was so stripped of color due to a lack of nutrients, my salivary glands so swollen and throat so sore from regular purging, that friends and university tutors would often ask if I was ill. After a year, I had been throwing my electrolytes so out of balance and putting my heart under such a strain that I began needing weekly blood tests.
Bleeding and receding gums, which I soon realized indicated gum disease, marked a year and a half. I withdrew from social situations, and my university work, family relationships, and self-esteem deteriorated.
It was an all-consuming addiction which would have driven me to drop out of my third year of university, had COVID measures not sent everyone home anyway. Quarantining with my family magnified the stigma around bulimia for me.
A few times when my sister and I got into arguments, she would throw my eating disorder in my face to embarrass me.
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