Is bulimia an addiction?

No: Bulimia is an eating disorder. Suggest nutrition and psychology assessment and counseling.

No it is an Illness : Bulimia is an illness in which a person binges on food , or had regular episodes of overeating and feels a loss of control, than uses vomitting or laxative to prevent weight.

Mutual support helps: A disease by any other name may be as isolating. Support for recovery from bulimia may be found in overeaters anonymous.

Yes: It is a form of food addiction where the food binge is akin to addiction behavior. The purging is a separate phenomena brought on by the stress of the food binge. However the binge is clearly an addiction with patterns of neurologic activity in response to food triggers being similar to that from any addiction.