By Jonathan Hoffman, PhD, Dee Franklin, PsyD, LMHC, Ciana Mickolus, PsyD, & Myriam Padron, PsyD Eating disorders (ED) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) appear in separate chapters of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR) (American Psychiatric Association (APA), 2022) and are generally regarded as different conditions that often co-occur and share common symptoms, such as obsessional thinking, compulsions/rituals, avo