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Mental Health 15w

maybe a dumb question but what’s disordered eating vs an eating disorder?

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Anonymous 15w

Not a dumb question at all!! Disordered eating is more the individual habits/patterns that indicate a poor relationship with food, you can have disordered eating without having a eating disorder, which is the combination/cycle of disordered eating that can be diagnosed

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Anonymous 15w

Idk and I have an ed

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Anonymous

#2 15w

Yes, and eating disorders are more of a mental illness than disordered eating. But I would say disordered eating is usually part of the diagnostic criteria for eating disorders. like specific subgroups of disordered eating could be considered a symptom of an eating disorder. Does that make sense?

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