What Is an Eating Disorder?
Asking for support is a strength, not a ______.
What is weakness?
This life-sustaining organ can slow down or stop during starvation.
What is the heart?
This app is known for filters and unrealistic body expectations.
What is Instagram or TikTok?
Writing in one of these can help you express your emotions safely.
What is a journal?
This team helps support your eating disorder recovery.
What is your treatment team (or therapist, dietitian, doctor)?
True or False: You have to be underweight to have an eating disorder.
False — EDs happen at any weight.
True or False: You have to be underweight to have a serious eating disorder.
What is false?
This profession often uses Photoshop to alter how people look in ads.
What is modeling or advertising?
This type of coping is healthier than restriction or purging.
What is a coping skill?
This plan helps guide what and when to eat during treatment.
What is a meal plan?
Can someone have an eating disorder even if they don’t “look sick”?
What is YES!?
This symptom of malnutrition can make it hard to think clearly or focus in school.
What is brain fog or poor concentration?
True or False: Everyone’s “set point” weight is the same.
What is false?
This is a calming breathing technique you can use anywhere.
What is deep breathing or box breathing?
Celebrating small victories helps build this over time.
What is confidence or motivation?
Why do eating disorders sometimes go unnoticed by others?
sometimes go unnoticed by others?People may hide symptoms or not “look sick.”
When your body doesn’t get enough food, it lowers this to conserve energy.
What is body temperature?
Comparing your body to others on social media can increase this emotion.
What is shame or insecurity?
A situation or feeling that makes you want to use eating disorder behaviors is called this.
What is a trigger?
This is a common part of recovery where old behaviors come back—but doesn’t mean you’ve failed.
What is relapse or a slip?
Name one myth about eating disorders.
A common myth is that only girls get eating disorders. In reality, people of all genders, ages, body sizes, and backgrounds can struggle with eating disorders. They are not about vanity — they are serious mental and physical health conditions.
This important hormone that helps with growth and development can drop during restriction.
What is estrogen or testosterone?
This term means accepting and appreciating your body as it is.
What is body neutrality or body acceptance?
Writing a letter to your ED voice is a form of this recovery tool.
What is externalization?
This recovery mindset means giving yourself kindness instead of judgment.
What is self-compassion?