Eating & Feeding
Eating & Feeding
Eating/feeding disturbance (apparent lack of interest; sensory-based avoidance; concern about aversive consequences) → persistent failure to meet nutritional/energy needs
Restriction of energy intake → significantly low body weight for age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health
B. ≥1 of: significant weight loss/failure to gain weight; significant nutritional deficiency; dependence on enteral feeding/oral supplements; marked interference with psychosocial functioning C. Not better explained by food unavailability or culturally sanctioned practice D. Not occurring exclusively during anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa
B. Intense fear of weight gain or persistent behaviour interfering with weight gain, despite low weight C. Disturbance in how weight/shape experienced; undue influence on self-evaluation; or persistent lack of recognition of seriousness of current low weight
A. Eating/feeding disturbance (apparent lack of interest; sensory-based avoidance; concern about aversive consequences) → persistent failure to meet nutritional/energy needs B. ≥1 of: significant weight loss/failure to gain weight; significant nutritional deficiency; dependence on enteral feeding/oral supplements; marked interference with psychosocial functioning C. Not better explained by food unavailability or culturally sanctioned practice
A. Restriction of energy intake → significantly low body weight for age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health B. Intense fear of weight gain or persistent behaviour interfering with weight gain, despite low weight C. Disturbance in how weight/shape experienced; undue influence on self-evaluation; or persistent lack of recognition of seriousness of current low weight
No formal DSM-5-TR specifiers
Restricting type; Binge-eating/purging type; In partial remission; In full remission
AN (body image disturbance and/or fear of weight gain - critical distinction); Specific phobia (overlap with fear-of-consequences subtype); OCD with food contamination obsessions
ARFID (no body image disturbance; no fear of weight gain - critical distinction); Bulimia nervosa (normal or above-normal weight; binge-purge cycle); MDD with appetite loss (no weight/shape overvaluation)