Eating Disorder Support Jeopardy

Misconceptions

100

True or False: This gender does not have eating disorders. 

What are males?

• Gay men are 7x more likely to report binge-eating and 12x more likely to report purging than heterosexual men.
• Gay and bisexual boys are significantly more likely to fast, vomit, or take laxatives or diet pills to control their weight.
• Transgender college students report experiencing disordered eating at approximately 4x the rate of their cisgender classmates.
• 32% of transgender people report using their eating disorder to modify their body without hormones.
• 56% of transgender people with eating disorders believe their disorder is not related to their physical body.
• Gender dysphoria and body dissatisfaction in transgender people is often cited as a key link to eating disorders.
• Non-binary people may restrict their eating to appear thin, consistent with the common stereotype of androgynous people in popular culture.

200

A popular misconception is that this group of individuals gain and lose weight for their sport, but they never develop eating disorders.

What is a wrestler?

300

There is a misconception in which purging only involves self-induced vomiting. What is another method individuals use during purging?

What is laxatives?

400

 According to a study,  aside from Anorexia, which eating disorder was found to have a significantly high mortality rate?

What is bulimia nervosa?

500

True or false:

It is said that if you have an eating disorder, it is unlikely you have another mental health diagnosis.

What is False?

Individuals often have this diagnosis paired with a variety of mental health diagnoses like anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, SU, and Autism, etc.

Statistics

100

Which gender has twice the prevalence of binge eating disorder than the other. 

What is female?

Many believe this to be largely because cis males are highly unlikely to report having an eating disorder and more likely to be diagnosed as medically underweight instead. 

200

This is the percentage of both the U.S. and worldwide populations who are affected by eating disorders.

What is 10%

300

This eating disorder has a median age of onset of 21 years old.

What is binge eating disorder?

400

This is the percentage of adults with eating disorders that also have Autism. 

What is 30%?

500

Out of 10 people with an eating disorder, this is the number that will seek treatment. 

What is 1?

Basic Knowledge

100

This eating disorder is sometimes characterized by abnormally low body weight, intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of body image.

What is Anorexia Nervosa?

200

In this eating disorder, people eat things that are not food.

What is pica?

300

Most people with eating disorders don't seek this out.....

What is treatment?

400

People with this eating disorder have episodes where they consume large qualities of food and do not use compensatory behaviors to get rid of the food. 

What is Binge-eating disorder?

500

Genetics/biology, environmental influences, peer pressure, mental health, stress, trauma, and cultural expectations might play this role in eating disorders. 

What are contributing factors?

Do's & Don'ts

100

DO or Don't:

CO and Cls should give up hope on "Getting Better" when experiencing an Eating Disorder.

What is Don't?

Give up hope. Sustained and permanent recovery from an eating disorder is possible. The road to being fully recovered is not easy, but the presence of loving supporters is essential to progress on that journey.

200

DO or Don't

CO should get their own support when their loved ones are experiencing an eating disorder.

What is Do?

Get your own support. This can be from many sources such as a support group, a therapist, a friend, or a member of clergy. Some treatment facilities offer support groups just for loved ones of their clients for this reason. It is important to recognize that getting your own support can help the person you love who is suffering from an eating disorder. Much like the way that on an airplane, you’re instructed to put your own air mask on before helping others, you must take care of yourself before you can support someone else.

 

300

DO or Don't:

You should talk about bodies of the individual or others in a positive and/or negative light. This could be anybody including people on tv or in magazines. 

What is Don’t?

Don't talk about or evaluate your body or other people’s bodies in front of someone in recovery. This goes for compliments as well as criticisms. For example, noting that a celebrity looks great because she has lost weight can send a message that what you value about others is their appearance. Nor should you talk about dieting or weight in front of someone in recovery either. These messages are subtle but insidious, and it takes practice to become aware of them.

400

Do or Don't:

You should make accommodations for the "eating disorder self" in daily life activities. An example of this could be not going out to dinner as a family because it makes a person in the family uncomfortable.

What is DON'T?

DON'T make changes in your own life to accommodate the eating disorder. At Monte Nido (eating disorder clinic), they talk about a person’s Healthy Self and an Eating Disordered Self. For example, a client once expressed her family would stay home and watch TV with her instead of going out to eat at a restaurant as restaurants made her (Eating Disordered Self) uncomfortable. While this seems like a supportive gesture, the family allowed her Eating Disordered Self to call the shots. This enabled her to keep using disordered behaviors with no natural consequences.

500

Do or Don't:

CO should ask to be a part of their loved one's treatment for eating disorders.

What is DO? BUT it Depends on a myriad of factors. In general support systems are ESSENTIAL to recovery with EDs. 

Ask to be involved in your loved one’s treatment. One of the most important components of eating disorder recovery is developing a support network of people who understand how to help. Many people with eating disorders use it as a way to cope with difficult emotions, thoughts, or events. Using food to exercise control over their situation is a strategy that may seem helpful at first but soon turns into a real problem. To move away from the disorder, the person must begin to rely on friends and family for emotional support instead of relying on their eating disorder. This is what we often call “putting the eating disorder out of a job.”

 

Many people who live with eating disorders feel high levels of shame and experience stigma from the outside world. Joining with your loved one and engaging in therapy to the degree in which they are comfortable sends a message of empathy, acceptance, and love that helps them move past those feelings of shame.

 

Potpourri

100

This is what NEDA stands for.

What is the abbreviation for National Eating Disorders Association

200

These have the highest risk of death of any mental illness.

What are eating disorders?

300

This race has a higher lifelong prevalence for eating disorders.

What is white adults?

* BIPOC refers to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

• BIPOC are significantly less likely than white people to have been asked by a doctor about eating disorder symptoms.
• BIPOC with eating disorders are half as likely to be diagnosed or to receive treatment.
• Black people are less likely to be diagnosed with anorexia than white people but may experience the condition for a longer period of time.
• Black teenagers are 50% more likely than white teenagers to exhibit bulimic behavior, such as binge-eating and purging.
• Hispanic people are significantly more likely to suffer from bulimia nervosa than their non-Hispanic peers.
• Asian American college students report higher rates of restriction compared with their white peers and higher rates of purging, muscle building, and cognitive restraint than their white or non-Asian, BIPOC peers.
• Asian American college students report higher levels of body dissatisfaction and negative attitudes toward obesity than their non-Asian, BIPOC peers.

400

This is a direct result of one death every 52 minute, totaling 10,200 deaths per year. 

What are eating disorders?

• About 26% of people with eating disorders attempt suicide.

500

This is the percentage of people diagnosed with eating disorders that are between the ages 12 and 25.

What is 95%?