Journal of Eating Disorders, raises awareness of the pandemic’s detrimental effects on people’s mental health, and could be valuable for the future development of health services.COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, has hospitalized hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and resulted in a significant number of deaths.However, the pandemic and the emergency measures responding to it, have also had a significant effect on people’s mental health.To slow the spread of COVID-19, governments across the world introduced various emergency measures that typically involved some degree of physical distancing or lockdown.While these lockdowns have been crucial in reducing the disease’s spread and saving lives, they have also been profoundly.