NEDA Hotline OSFED or Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder was first established in the 2013 release of the DSM-5. The DSM-5 stands for the 5th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a manual that is released by the American Psychological Association. But, OSFED isn’t actually new. People who met the criteria for OSFED before – i.e. people who met most but not quite all of the criteria for Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa – used to be given a different diagnosis, EDNOS (Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified). The problem with this, though, is that EDNOS … Continue reading Eating Disorders: History of OSFED and Teens