Eating is a compulsory subject of living and we cannot survive without it. However, being suffering from eating disorder you can have a lonely experience . People generally do not bother if someone can suffer from abnormal eating habits.
They generally consider anorexia and bulimia as eating disorders. Those who get diagnosis otherwise, have to suffer alone. Even your clinician doesn’t take things seriously. Moreover, if you start taking these two particular eating disorder diagnosis on your nerves, you unconsciously adopt the illness and feel more negative.
Though DSM 5 has given more classification of eating disorders that commonly people are not aware of. Therefore, the sufferers suffer alone and their battle is theirs only without empathy and recognition. You cannot simply convince people that you are suffering from eating disorder if diagnosis is other than anorexia and bulimia.