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These processes shape who is legitimized as having EDs\/DEBs within biomedical systems and society. To examine how such gaps are produced and navigated, we employ a narrative intersectional methodology. Although analysis was grounded in inductive coding, interpretations were informed by lived-experience alongside narrative and intersectional commitments. We present the overarching theme Who Gets Seen: Recognition and Visibility in EDs\/DEBs. Three subthemes emerged:\n                    <jats:italic>Struggles for Legitimacy<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Being Seen, Misread, or Overlooked<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>Navigating Self-Recognition<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Across themes, participants described barriers to care, recognition, and healing, illustrating how individuals negotiate norms of being seen by family, friends, healthcare providers, and themselves. Findings highlight persistent inequities in recognition and visibility that leave many individuals unnoticed and undertreated. These dynamics reflect epistemic injustice, where credibility and lived realities are undermined within medical systems. Advancing epistemic justice requires reimagining what EDs\/DEBs look like and who is considered deserving of recognition and care.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pmen.0000634","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,17]],"date-time":"2026-06-17T17:34:00Z","timestamp":1781717640000},"page":"e0000634","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmen.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["\u201cI feel like there\u2019s going to have to be catastrophe before I am seen:..and that is going to be devastating\u201d: Visibility, recognition, and medical silencing in eating disorders and disordered eating"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"3","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-1244-6648","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Hannah","family":"Healey","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Claudia Susana","family":"Caxaj","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elys\u00e9e","family":"Nouvet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,17]]},"reference":[{"issue":"6","key":"pmen.0000634.ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"362","DOI":"10.1097\/YCO.0000000000000818","article-title":"Worldwide prevalence of DSM-5 eating disorders among young people","volume":"35","author":"Y Sil\u00e9n","year":"2022","journal-title":"Curr Opin Psychiatry"},{"issue":"1","key":"pmen.0000634.ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"72","DOI":"10.1007\/s40519-023-01600-0","article-title":"Eating disorders and physical multimorbidity in the English general population","volume":"28","author":"L Smith","year":"2023","journal-title":"Eat Weight Disord"},{"issue":"1","key":"pmen.0000634.ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"132","DOI":"10.1186\/s40337-022-00654-2","article-title":"Psychiatric and medical comorbidities of eating disorders: findings from a rapid review of the literature","volume":"10","author":"National Eating Disorder Research Consortium","year":"2022","journal-title":"J Eat Disord"},{"issue":"6","key":"pmen.0000634.ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"750","DOI":"10.1002\/erv.2780","article-title":"\u201cIf she had broken her leg she would not have waited in agony for 9 months\u201d: Caregiver\u2019s experiences of eating disorder treatment","volume":"28","author":"I Robinson","year":"2020","journal-title":"Eur Eat Disord Rev"},{"issue":"6","key":"pmen.0000634.ref005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"521","DOI":"10.1097\/YCO.0000000000000641","article-title":"Review of the burden of eating disorders: mortality, disability, costs, quality of life, and family burden","volume":"33","author":"D van Hoeken","year":"2020","journal-title":"Curr Opin Psychiatry"},{"issue":"10","key":"pmen.0000634.ref006","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"903","DOI":"10.1002\/jclp.70005","article-title":"A Scoping Review of Eating Disorder Clinicians\u2019 Experiences, Needs, Views and Wellbeing","volume":"81","author":"K Novogrudsky","year":"2025","journal-title":"J Clin Psychol"},{"issue":"1","key":"pmen.0000634.ref007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"113","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cpr.2010.08.003","article-title":"Eating disorders and quality of life: a review of the literature","volume":"31","author":"PE Jenkins","year":"2011","journal-title":"Clin Psychol Rev"},{"key":"pmen.0000634.ref008","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2743","DOI":"10.1007\/s10389-022-01704-4","article-title":"Has the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown worsened eating disorders symptoms among patients with eating disorders? 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