Overweight from medication and growing up only being fed junk by parents
I have the behavioural and psychological signs of ana but not the physical so technically I'm not ana, I think I'm ednos but I'm not diagnosed (too big for people to worry about my "dieting" habits, as long as I'm losing weight they don't care how)

But ed's are different for everyone, no two are the same really, it depends

Don't think this really helps at all but yeah that's my ed, whatever it is

 

You could have EDNOS because of your binging.. the sub-types of anorexia are restrictive (you only ever restrict), b/p (you binge sometimes and purge sometimes, including normal meals).. I don't really know how anorexia and binging goes together in the diagnostic sense but I'm sure it's classified as EDNOS.. or some kind of OSFED sub-type now anyway.

As for weight, it depends. A lot of people with EDNOS are of normal weights because of the constant restricting and binging. They lose weight and gain it again and it's a terrible on-going cycle. But EDNOS covers a lot of different areas so there's plenty of underweight and overweight people who have EDNOS too.

 

I'm currently overweight from medication that threw me into a long BED cycle which is over now. But when I was first diagnosed EDNOS I was at the low end of normal bmi. I was in treatment for AN but didn't get better I just gained enough weight that when I was re-evaluated I didn't meet the requirement for AN anymore.

My ED behavior started to change a bit. I still have a restrictive mindset but I go through more binge cycles now than I did before.

 

EDNOS was sort of a catch all for ED's that didn't fit into either AN or BN as well as some other specified disorders in the DSM IV. Now the DSM V is out, and EDNOS no longer exists. Some of the disorders that were covered by EDNOS have been given their own diagnosis under a category called OSFED (other specified feeding or eating disorder) like atypical AN, night eating syndrome, and a few others. I think there are five total under OSFED. Then instead of there still being EDNOS, there is UFED. Unspecified feeding or eating disorder. So if you don't fall into one of the newly categorized eating disorders criterion, then you'd be suffering from UFED. Maybe you should look into the OSFED subcategories, and bring that up with a therapist! Or maybe you would still be unspecified as UFED, it's worth looking into.

HOWEVER. If you have previously (as in, before the DSM V was introduced), been diagnosed with EDNOS, I'm pretty sure you get to keep the title for insurance purposes and things like that.

And your other question: idk what you'd consider 'skinny' but my bmi is normal at the moment. My bmi has fluctuated from 16.2 - 23.0 lmaaoooo EDNOS~~

not offended at all! but aaaalso, it is actually not a stereotype that people who suffer from AN are very thin! There is a weight criteria within the diagnosis of AN that atypical anorexia does not have. imo, it's necessary to separate, there are obviously different physical problems that someone with AN is going to need dealt with, even if the mental processes are the same/similar. The issue lies in the fact that some people with normal bmi's do have very serious health issues related to the ED as well, and they get overlooked because they are not underweight.

Idk, I think there should be severity levels for AN because someone who is has a 17.4 bmi is going to have vastly different issues than someone with 12. BUT then there'd be an even bigger, more horrible mess of being 'sick enough' for treatment/personal competition. Blah blah, sorry I've gone on a tangent lol. I know there's a big to-do on this site about whether the weight criteria is fair or whatever. Sorry if I've offended you now haha

 

EDNOS was sort of a catch all for ED's that didn't fit into either AN or BN as well as some other specified disorders in the DSM IV. Now the DSM V is out, and EDNOS no longer exists. Some of the disorders that were covered by EDNOS have been given their own diagnosis under a category called OSFED (other specified feeding or eating disorder) like atypical AN, night eating syndrome, and a few others. I think there are five total under OSFED. Then instead of there still being EDNOS, there is UFED. Unspecified feeding or eating disorder. So if you don't fall into one of the newly categorized eating disorders criterion, then you'd be suffering from UFED. Maybe you should look into the OSFED subcategories, and bring that up with a therapist! Or maybe you would still be unspecified as UFED, it's worth looking into.

HOWEVER. If you have previously (as in, before the DSM V was introduced), been diagnosed with EDNOS, I'm pretty sure you get to keep the title for insurance purposes and things like that.

And your other question: idk what you'd consider 'skinny' but my bmi is normal at the moment. My bmi has fluctuated from 16.2 - 23.0 lmaaoooo EDNOS~~

not offended at all! but aaaalso, it is actually not a stereotype that people who suffer from AN are very thin! There is a weight criteria within the diagnosis of AN that atypical anorexia does not have. imo, it's necessary to separate, there are obviously different physical problems that someone with AN is going to need dealt with, even if the mental processes are the same/similar. The issue lies in the fact that some people with normal bmi's do have very serious health issues related to the ED as well, and they get overlooked because they are not underweight.
Idk, I think there should be severity levels for AN because someone who is has a 17.4 bmi is going to have vastly different issues than someone with 12. BUT then there'd be an even bigger, more horrible mess of being 'sick enough' for treatment/personal competition. Blah blah, sorry I've gone on a tangent lol. I know there's a big to-do on this site about whether the weight criteria is fair or whatever. Sorry if I've offended you now haha

Thanks so much for your input! I really apricate it. I actually learned a lot from you post so THANK YOU. and no I'm not offended at all! I feel like all you really need to know if your going thru this kinda stuff is that i have an ED, and i need to deal with it. It's not critical for me to know, I just would like to. All I need to reconise is that I have an ED I guess. Thanks so much for your input!! My bmi is 20 btw

 

Thanks so much for your input! I really apricate it. I actually learned a lot from you post so THANK YOU. and no I'm not offended at all! I feel like all you really need to know if your going thru this kinda stuff is that i have an ED, and i need to deal with it. It's not critical for me to know, I just would like to. All I need to reconise is that I have an ED I guess. Thanks so much for your input!! My bmi is 20 btw

No problem, I'm glad it was helpful!

That's my current bmi too, bmi buddies~~~ haha

 

No problem, I'm glad it was helpful!

That's my current bmi too, bmi buddies~~~ haha

Haha that's great! What's your hight and weight? I'm 5'6 125