Anorexia Nervosa Support Group

i don't know what i am. i restrict, but i also throw up, people keep referring to me as "bulimic" but i don't really binge, so i was wondering what you all thought...

than ks for your responses...

~Tru

There are labels for the different kinds of ED's but it seems like the "experts" can't agree on how to label them, from what I can tell. Does anyone have a link to some kind of standardized terminology for the different disorders? I know that if you don't fall into a specific category, they call it "Eating Disorder Non-Specified."

yea. I guess. it may just be the perfectionist in me needing to know exactly where i fit in. Can anyone else relate to that? the need to have everything in its proper place?

if u restrict and not binge then just throw up when u do eat and id ur bmi is low and if u dont get your period u are anorexic, if u only have a few of those things u are endos and if u binge then purge but still have a period and a healthy weight u are bulimic, i hope hat helped, take care

i restrict, and throw up when i eat, my bmi is lower end of normal, healthy. i have my period ( or last time i checked )so i guess im EDNOS...hmmm

i guess part of me really wished that i fit into a nice neat and tidy label, like "hi i'm Tru, and im Anorexic", or "I'm tru, and i'm Bulimic" ...there is so much grey area with EDnos... i don't know... but if that is what i am...it is what i am...and i'm not going to be able to change that...only the behaviors i have, for the better i mean..(recovery)

I think that the APA really needs to change their definition of anorexia, because a lot of women have a lower BMI and restrict, but haven't lost their periods or don't weigh "little enough". I think it really puts a lot of women down when they already feel horribly about themselves. I know several people, myself included, that didn't fit into a nice neat category just because we were missing one symptom....it's just dumb, if you ask me.

To me, it sounds like purging type anorexia, but a psychologist would probably diagnose ED-NOS because you're missing one or two symptoms of full-blown anorexia.

I agree with u recovered, like now im clasiffied as endos cause i gained weight but when i was smaller i was diagnosed with anorexia, so now its like im too fat to be anorexic...

oh god that is horrible!!

i'm so sorry that that happened! they should say that you are a recovering anorexic, not that you have a different diagnosis!! that is rediculouse

I heard that you can write to the APA and tell them what you think of their diagnosing system.

Oh really?! I might just do that, hehe! I was on my way to my MSW before I had to take a medical leave, so maybe I can talk about how clients feel about it.

Thanks for the info, Julie!