Eating Disorders
Eating disorders: when food comes with fear
A meal can bring worries about weight, fullness, sickness or losing control. STAND DOWN explores the fear behind the rules and checking.
When eating feels risky
For some people, food brings fear of weight change, fullness, sickness or losing control. The fear can make an ordinary meal feel difficult.
You may restrict food, weigh yourself, check mirrors or follow strict rules. STAND DOWN explores how the alarm around feared consequences can make these patterns hard to leave behind.
When the calculations don't stop
A menu, a reflection or a change in how clothes fit can start a fresh round of worry. The calculations may continue long after a meal.
Eating with others can be hard when you're trying to hide the fear. A simple instruction to 'just eat' doesn't address what's happening for you.
The cost beyond meals
Food and appearance worries can interrupt study, work and sleep. You might be doing mental calculations while trying to get through a normal day.
Travel and shared meals can become difficult to plan. The rules can affect your choices, relationships and time.
Hear STAND DOWN's approach
STAND DOWN's ordered audio sessions focus on its explanation of the fear behind food, weight and appearance worries. You listen privately without symptom scoring.
The science video and guided visualisations add to the teaching. CHUCK, your AI programme guide, can help you navigate the sessions and answer questions about them.
Recognising the pattern
- Thoughts about food, weight or appearance keep interrupting your day.
- Eating can bring fear of fullness, sickness or loss of control.
- Checking, restriction or strict rules ease the fear only briefly.
- You plan social events and travel around food worries.
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