Is it an eating disorder?
You may be at high risk.
While this screener is not designed to diagnose an eating disorder, your responses indicate that it's very possible you could be struggling with one or more of these symptoms:
- Dramatic dieting, including counting calories, fasting, or cutting out entire food groups.
- Developing food rituals, such as eating foods in a specific order, excessive chewing, or arranging food on a plate in a particular way.
- Avoiding meals or social situations involving food.
- Eating in secret or hiding food.
- Disappearing to the bathroom shortly after meals.
- Binge eating, which involves consuming large amounts of food in a short period, often feeling out of control.
- Constant or repetitive weighing of oneself.
- Wearing baggy clothes to hide weight loss or body shape.
- Excessive time spent in front of a mirror checking for perceived flaws.
- Exercising excessively, even when sick or injured.
- Showing distress if unable to exercise.
- Misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or diet pills.
- Lying about food intake or weight.
