It's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week this week, and we thought we'd share this recently published article from the New York Times, Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind.
The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is issuing it's Fifth edition, the DSM-V, in 2013. They will be revising several diagnoses, including binge eating disorder, which is currently categorized as an eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS).
From the article:
"This is not the normative overeating that we all do, by any means,” said Dr. B. Timothy Walsh, a psychiatrist at Columbia and the New York State Psychiatric Institute who is working on the manual. “It involves much more loss of control, more distress, deeper feelings of guilt and unhappiness."
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Edited to Add:
Just received this link to NPR's story on the same subject. The story goes into greater depth about Binge Eating Disorder and reasons behind its inclusion in the DSM-V.
