Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified

Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified

Did you know there’s an official category called EDNOS? That means “eating disorder  not otherwise specified.” It’s a catchall term for any kind of pathological relationship with food that is neither anorexia nor bulimia. This is currently a hot topic among the psychiatrists and physicians who are revising the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, for its next edition, due in 2013.

About half of all eating disorder patients fall into the amorphous EDNOS category