Diabulimia Helpline is now available via Skype at diabulimia.helpline as well as our 24 hour helpline 1 (425) 985 -3635
Diabulimia Helpline is the country's only non-profit organization dedicated to education, support, and advocacy for diabulimics, and their families. Among other things: we have a 24 hour helpline, an insurance specialist to walk patients and/or their parents through the complicated world of getting insurance to cover eating disorders, and a referral service to help find the treatment centers, doctors, therapists, and counselors that would be a good fit for on the road to recovery.
Diabulimia, also known as, ED-DMT1, is the media term coined to describe purposefully manipulating or withholding insulin in order to lose weight. Studies show that Type 1 diabetics are two and a half times more likely to develop an eating disorder than other women. Research suggests that 30 - 40 percent of diabetic women between the ages of 15 and 30 manipulate or omit their insulin in order to lose weight.
Both Diabetes and eating disorders are complex, dangerous diseases when they occur separately; when the conditions exist in the same person, the results can be devastating. The short term consequences start with Severe Dehydration, muscle loss, Diabetic Ketoacidosis and quickly escalate to high cholesterol, Yeast Infections, Menstrual Disruption and staph infections. Long term, the consequences become Retinopathy, Neuropathy, Gastroparesis, Liver Disease, Kidney Failure, Stroke, Coma and even death.
But there is hope. And the fact that you are here means you're ready to take hold of that hope, and take hold of your life again. And we know it will not be easy but "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Worry not, you are not meant to do this alone. Recovery is a journey, and we will be there with you every step of the way.
Welcome, it's time for your real life to begin.
Diabulimia Helpline is the country's only non-profit organization dedicated to education, support, and advocacy for diabulimics, and their families. Among other things: we have a 24 hour helpline, an insurance specialist to walk patients and/or their parents through the complicated world of getting insurance to cover eating disorders, and a referral service to help find the treatment centers, doctors, therapists, and counselors that would be a good fit for on the road to recovery.
Diabulimia, also known as, ED-DMT1, is the media term coined to describe purposefully manipulating or withholding insulin in order to lose weight. Studies show that Type 1 diabetics are two and a half times more likely to develop an eating disorder than other women. Research suggests that 30 - 40 percent of diabetic women between the ages of 15 and 30 manipulate or omit their insulin in order to lose weight.
Both Diabetes and eating disorders are complex, dangerous diseases when they occur separately; when the conditions exist in the same person, the results can be devastating. The short term consequences start with Severe Dehydration, muscle loss, Diabetic Ketoacidosis and quickly escalate to high cholesterol, Yeast Infections, Menstrual Disruption and staph infections. Long term, the consequences become Retinopathy, Neuropathy, Gastroparesis, Liver Disease, Kidney Failure, Stroke, Coma and even death.
But there is hope. And the fact that you are here means you're ready to take hold of that hope, and take hold of your life again. And we know it will not be easy but "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Worry not, you are not meant to do this alone. Recovery is a journey, and we will be there with you every step of the way.
Welcome, it's time for your real life to begin.
With Hope,
Erin M. Akers, CEO
