Just a little while ago, I had a convo with my therapist about my current diagnosis...its not longer Anorexia...it's Ed NOS which means "eating disorder not otherwise specified". I looked up a ittle mor einfo on this so in no way is the following my work, I found this on Wikipedia. But it says that ED NOS is the diagnosis for a person with disordered eating patterns but doesn't fit any one category. More specifically, it says that the folliwing is the criteria, which is from the DSM IV:

DSM-IV Criteria

The EDNOS category include disorders that do not meet the criteria for a specific eating disorder. Each one of the following disorders is an example:

• For females, all of the criteria for anorexia nervosa are met except that the individual has regular menses.

• All of the criteria for anorexia nervosa are met except that, despite substantial weight loss, the individual's current weight is in the normal range.

• All of the criteria for bulimia nervosa are met except that binge eating and inappropriate compensatory mechanisms occur at a frequency of less than twice a week or for a duration of less than 3 months.

• The regular use of inappropriate compensatory behavior by an individual of normal body weight after eating small amounts of food (eg; self-induced vomiting after the consumption of two cookies).

• Repeatedly chewing and spitting out, but not swallowing, large amounts of food.

• Binge eating disorder: recurrent episodes of binge eating in the absence of the regular use of inappropriate compensatory behaviors characteristic of bulimia nervosa.

I don't know how I feel about this. This is s touchy subject because it is hard to talk about feelings around certain diagnosis', for me anyway, just bc I don't want anyone to take offense to anything or misinterpret especially bc the thoughts that ed's make you have are very irrational. But I will say that at this moment in time, I'm trying not to worry about it. Honestly at this point, I really don't even want an ed. Which is huge for me because I've been so scared to let go for so long. Just because I don't want it doesn't make it go away, but it increases my motivation. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone with ed's out there also have those thoughts about having one diagnosis over another, like one is better than the other...even though we obviously know that none are good in any way. I don't know if I'm making sense but I hope this does lol. Take care everyone!!