People born in spring more likely to develop anorexia

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Overnight, researchers at the University of Oxford published a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry which found that, in a group of 1293 individuals with anorexia, there was an unusually large number born in northern hemisphere spring - March to June, and a much smaller number born in September and October, compared to national birth

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[sepiacoloredsky]

Mostly off-topic, but regarding the second link in the post you linked, my therapist said that the body image criteria in BN and AN are not one and the same. Some people with EDs do have different "mindsets" than others. For instance, he says that if someone b/p's at least twice a week for three months and is losing drastic amounts of weight, yet is experiencing a disturbance in body image where she does not realize how much weight she has physically lost, this person would be EDNOS (all criteria of b/p anorexia except low weight) and not BN. Both AN and BN have "self-evaluation influenced by weight," but only AN has "disturbance in the way in which one's body ... is experienced."

However, I do agree with the point that there is no such as "tendencies" since eating disorders in all their manifestations share a lot of the same behaviors, and that none is better than the others.

Sorry for responding here (especially when you didn't even write the original post!), but I didn't want to comment on something six years old and I wanted to say something about it.