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The mental image most people carry — an emaciated teenage girl — describes a minority of cases. Around 6% of people will experience an eating disorder in their lifetime, and the great majority are not clinically underweight at the point they need help (Galmiche 2019, systematic review of 33 studies). “Atypical anorexia” — every cognitive and behavioural feature of anorexia, in a body of normal or higher weight — is now one of the most common presentations. BMI is the wrong instrument here: it measures mass, not the relationship with food. A person can have a textbook eating disorder at a BMI of 19, 24 or 31. The number on the scale hides it; the EAT-26 does not.

Ce măsoară cu adevărat EAT-26

The Eating Attitudes Test, EAT-26 (Garner 1982), is the most widely used self-report screener for disordered eating attitudes. Twenty-six statements, six-point scale, about five minutes. The cut-off is 20: a total of 20 or higher flags attitudes that warrant a professional conversation. It maps three patterns — dieting preoccupation, bulimia and food preoccupation, and oral control. It is a screener, not a diagnosis: a clinician confirms the disorder with an interview and the behavioural questions (binge, purge, laxatives, exercise, weight loss) that sit alongside the core 26.

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Bărbați, vârstă medie, corpuri mai mari — cine este ratat

Three groups are most often missed because they do not match the myth. Men — roughly 1 in 7 people with an eating disorder are male (Galmiche 2019); men are diagnosed later and treated less, partly because clinicians and the men themselves do not expect it. Midlife adults — onset and relapse in the 40s and 50s is rising; menopause and major life transitions are triggers, and “she’s too old for that” delays care. Larger bodies — people in larger bodies with restriction, bingeing or purging are frequently praised for weight loss instead of screened, which is why binge-eating disorder — the most common eating disorder of all — goes unrecognised for years. The EAT-26 asks about behaviour and thought, not size, which is exactly why it catches what BMI cannot.

Ce înseamnă scorul tău și unde ar trebui să te trimită

A score below 20 does not rule an eating disorder out — if you answered yes to any behavioural item (bingeing, vomiting, laxatives, driven exercise, or losing significant weight in six months), that alone warrants a clinical conversation regardless of the total. A score of 20 or higher is a clear signal to talk to a GP or a specialist; bring the result. Eating disorders have the highest mortality of any psychiatric illness, but they are also highly treatable, and outcomes are dramatically better the earlier treatment starts (NICE NG69, 2017). The evidence-based treatments — CBT-E for adults, family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescents — work; full recovery is the realistic goal, not lifelong management.

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De ce depresia și anxietatea aproape întotdeauna le însoțesc

Eating disorders rarely travel alone. Major depression co-occurs in roughly half of cases and anxiety disorders in up to two-thirds (Hudson 2007, NCS-R). The direction runs both ways: restriction and bingeing dysregulate mood and amplify anxiety, while pre-existing depression and anxiety raise eating-disorder risk. This matters for the screen — a high EAT-26 paired with an elevated PHQ-9 or GAD-7 is the common real-world picture, and effective treatment addresses all of it together rather than one symptom at a time. If you screen positive on the EAT-26, screening mood and anxiety on the same visit gives your clinician the full picture.

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