NBC News (4/29, Hopkins) reported, “Hospitalizations for eating disorders spiked during the pandemic, doubling among adolescent girls, according to” data published online Feb. 25, 2022, in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, and even though “most teens have returned to a normal life of in-person school, sports and social activities, eating disorders, especially anorexia, remain at an all-time high, experts warn.” However, “with a shift in the way psychiatrists, psychologists and physicians diagnose them, it’s possible more cases are being recognized, rather than more teens developing new disorders.” A decade ago, “the American Psychiatric Association’s manual of mental disorders – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, or D.S.M.-5 – included binge eating as an official eating disorder for the first time” and also “drove greater recognition of eating disorders, including among boys.”
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— “Eating disorders among teens more severe than ever “Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, April 29, 2023