Amy Schwerdtfeger
I write for a living and spend time with my daughter.
Rape trauma. Battling the Stigma Surrounding Mental Illness. Writing, Research, Referencing. Education. Writing. Writing. Freelancers. Freelance writing. Freelance and Jobs Applications Skills. Writing. Writer's Tools & Promotion. Writer's Resources. Humanities. Sigma 12 -24. Psychology. Mind Mapping. Self Improvement. Stigma against mental illness project. Mental disorders. Mental Health. Help. Mental Health. Psychology. 14 Big Changes in 'The Psychiatrist's Bible' - Emotional Health Center. ADDED: Binge Eating Disorder image Surprisingly, binge eating disorder (BED) isn’t currently recognized as a formal diagnosis; DSM-IV only lists it in its appendix, meaning it is a condition proposed for further research.
DSM-5 experts, however, recommend that the disorder be moved to the main manual, where it would join conditions such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in the feeding and eating disorders category. “In the almost 20 years since criteria for BED were included in an appendix in DSM-IV, approximately 1,000 articles on BED have been published in the scientific literature,” says B. Timothy Walsh, MD, chair of the DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group. Psych.