Good afternoon everyone. It's Dr. Nigro again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Happy Memorial Day to everyone of the United States.

Julie and I truly appreciate having a global audience that we are able to reach and interact with and do our best at educating

and demystifying and destigmatizing the vast majority of psychiatric conditions and the

prevalence rates like I've mentioned in other episodes I think are since the pandemic

are significantly elevated than what are currently in the current DSM 5, which I think will be interesting to change when, he's to call the text revision before they come out with the actual like DSM 6 so uh again a true appreciation

has been fun interacting with people uh very privileged to have people come in from different parts

of the United States different parts of the world uh to meet with me and then do neuropsychiavals

and um appreciate your trust and confidence in what Julie and I are trying to do

and she is here with me today. So I've got back from a nice relaxing time sitting on the beach,

which is something I don't get to do enough of. I'll do an episode on

self-care at some point, and that's something I need to practice myself and work-life balance,

but I'm grateful for the work that I do and never feel that I am working. So today's topic

is one that I've alluded to multiple times. People have asked for us to do an episode on this.

So we're going to start in the realm, probably for the next maybe a few episodes, because it's such a big category, the eating disorders.

This is something that I personally diagnose quite frequently.

There are several types from PICA, which is eating non-nutriative substances like lead and pencils.

There's rumination disorder where people will chew their food, spit it out, then read it.

The more common ones, binge eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, bulim nervosa avoidant food restrictive intake disorders and sometimes

um unspecified feeding or eating disorder that's that's really a diagnostic category

or diagnosis that i use when when you don't really meet the

diagnostic criteria for any of the other ones that I just mentioned, I will often use

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