Why Eating Disorders Root From Trauma

Eating Disorders and the DSM

Natalie Astrid
8 min readMay 31, 2022

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The DSM describes eating disorders as the “persistent disturbance of eating or eating-related behavior that results in the altered consumption or absorption of food and significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning.” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

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Natalie Astrid

Theatre and Film creator, Marriage and Family therapy student, and girl just trying her best.