Listing 12.13
Eating disorders
This listing covers eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.
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SSA requires medical documentation of a persistent alteration in eating behavior that significantly harms physical or psychological health (paragraph A) AND serious limits in daily mental functioning (paragraph B). Both A and B are required.
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What Listing 12.13 asks for
What SSA looks for — see the 2 items
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Your medical records must document an ongoing change in how you eat — restricting food, binging, purging, or similar — that changes how much food you take in or absorb, and that significantly harms your physical or mental health.
(Listing 12.13, criterion A)
- Your condition must also cause an 'extreme' limit in one, or a 'marked' (serious) limit in two, of these areas: understanding and using information, getting along with others, staying focused and keeping pace, or managing yourself.
- Both A and B are required.
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Your condition must also cause an 'extreme' limit in one, or a 'marked' (serious) limit in two, of these areas: understanding and using information, getting along with others, staying focused and keeping pace, or managing yourself. Both A and B are required.
(Listing 12.13, criterion B)
How long it must last:
No listing-specific duration language; the general requirement applies — the impairment must have lasted or be expected to last at least 12 continuous months.