In general, all mental disorders are hereditary, except for two types of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The goal of bulimia is to lose weight, become a model, or fear obesity.
These people don’t eat for hours, but they eat once and then cleanse, which means cleansing (compensatory): lifting with the finger, using laxatives to expel feces, or exercising or extreme fasting.
Overeating in these people causes guilt, depression and self-hatred.
The treatment of bulimia nervosa is usually enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy, which is a transdiagnostic method