Eating Disorder Petition

Sign this petition if you believe in changing the diagnostic criteria for anorexia

The Joy Project, an eating disorders organization, is fighting for changing the diagnostic criteria for identifying anorexia. They want to specifically “delete weight requirements and judgments of physical characteristics.”

Because eating disorders cannot always be visible, this restriction in diagnosing individuals is lacking and missing out on the many who are in as much pain but don’t fit the physical requirements to get treatment.

The petition will be submitted to the American Psychiatric Association along with a formal review-of-current-research paper. The committee in charge of making changes to the criteria is now accepting feedback, so this is an important time to speak your voice.

For more information and to sign the petition, please visit: http://www.joyproject.org/Petition.html