Week Seven: Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified

Well, seven weeks into this blog.  I guess it was about time we got to this. Sigh. Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS).  Well basically EDNOS is an ED(Eating Disorder) in which a person may not meet all the criteria for a specific ED.  An example could be in which a person meets all the criteria for BED(Binge Eating Disorder) but does not have some BED behaviors.
Another example I'll use myself. I don't qualify to be diagnosed with AN(Anorexia Nervosa) because I still get my period. Yet I meet all the other criteria. So I would be diagnosed with EDNOS, not AN.
Oh my stars this is hard to type...
Some common signs of EDNOS?

• A female patient could meet all of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa except she is still having her periods
• A person could meet all of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa are met except that, despite significant weight loss the individual's current weight is in the normal range.
• A person could meet all of the diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa are met except that the binge eating and inappropriate compensatory mechanisms occur at a frequency of less than twice a week or for duration of less than 3 months.
• The person could use inappropriate compensatory behavior by an individual of normal body weight after eating small amounts of food (e.g., self-induced vomiting after the consumption of two cookies). This variant is often called purging disorder.
• The person could repeatedly chewing and spitting out, but not swallowing, large amounts of food.
• Binge-eating disorder is also officially an EDNOS category (see separate fact sheet for BED): recurrent episodes of binge eating in the absence if the regular use of inappropriate compensatory behaviors characteristic of bulimia nervosa.

(information found on http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=By_Illness&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=65849)

The list can go on and on as someone diagnosed is different.
I'm sorry this one is short but it's very hard to write about EDNOS. Wanna know something? More people are diagnosed with EDNOS then AN and BED combined.
Hmm... I think I'll also start referring to AN as Ana, and BED as Mia.
That's as much as I can write about this, until next time.