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Self-check · reflective, not diagnostic

Five honest questions. No score at the end.

This is a mirror, not a measurement. There is no tally, no severity band, no colour-coded verdict — because this tool cannot detect or rule out an eating disorder, and pretending otherwise would be the most harmful number on the page. Only a qualified clinician can assess you. Answer honestly; nothing is stored or sent anywhere.

Before you start: if tonight feels unsafe, call or text 988 now, free, any hour. And NEDIC — Canada's eating disorder information centre — is a human voice whenever you want one: 1-866-633-4220 · nedic.ca.

Before the questions · medical red flags

First, the four signs that skip reflection entirely.

  • Fainting — or repeatedly feeling like you're about to
  • Chest pain, or a racing or irregular heartbeat
  • Blood in vomit
  • Rapid weight change, in either direction
Emergency care now — call 911
  1. 01 / 05 · control

    Does food — eating it, avoiding it, planning around it — hold a kind of control over your days that you couldn't easily hand back?

  2. 02 / 05 · secrecy

    Do you eat, or not eat, in secret — arranging your day, your excuses, or your kitchen so that no one sees how it actually goes?

  3. 03 / 05 · body preoccupation

    Do thoughts about your body or its shape take up a large share of your waking hours, or decide what kind of day you're allowed to have?

  4. 04 / 05 · undoing

    After eating, do you do things to cancel it out — making yourself sick, going without afterwards, exercising past the point of choice, or using pills or other means?

  5. 05 / 05 · smaller life

    Has your life grown smaller around food — invitations declined, restaurants avoided, travel dreaded, people kept at a distance from your mealtimes?

This is a reflective tool, not a screening or diagnostic instrument. It cannot detect or rule out an eating disorder — only a qualified clinician can assess you. Nothing you answered was stored or transmitted; closing this tab erases it.

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Take the gentle self-check