Ellern Mede Eating Disorder Services is widely regarded as the UK’s most specialist provider of intensive inpatient and outpatient treatment for children and young people. We have a higher proportion of staff to patients than any other UK specialist eating disorder provider, able to provide close personal care to all of our patients

1. Eating Disorder Quiz Online

2. Eating disorders are characterised by an abnormal attitude towards food that causes someone to
change their eating habits and behaviour. A person with an eating disorder focuses excessively on
weight and shape, leading them to make unhealthy choices about food with damaging results to
their health.
Eating disorders include a range of conditions that can affect someone physically, psychologically
and socially.
Eating disorders cause significant difficulties for those affected and their families.
This includes social and relationship difficulties, mood difficulties such as depression and anxiety.
Eating disorders also impact an individual’s physical health, including bone health, energy levels,
menstruation and internal organs such as the heart.
About Eating Disorders

3. Eating Disorder Online
How can you tell if you have a problem with food or eating?
Here’s a simple test adapted from Morgan, Reid & Lacy’s well known ‘Scoff’
Questionnaire. This is not a replacement for a clinical diagnosis, but you will find it
useful if you are wondering if you could benefit from medical help or just
counselling to improve your relationship with food.

4. Answer these 6 questions honestly:
•Do you feel like you sometimes lose or have lost control over how you eat?
1. Yes 2.No
•Do you ever make yourself sick because you feel uncomfortably full?
1. Yes 2. No
•Do you believe yourself to be fat, even when others say you are too thin?
1. Yes 2. No
•Does food or thoughts about food dominate your life?
1. Yes 2. No
•Do thoughts about changing your body or your weight dominate your life?
1. Yes 2. No
•Have others become worried about your weight?
1. Yes 2. No

5. Result
Two or more “yes” answers indicate some level of disordered eating.
Ellern Mede’s view is that you should seek a professional opinion.
Eating disorders are serious illnesses, but with the right treatment people can,
and do, recover.

6. Type of Eating Disorders
•anorexia nervosa
•bulimia
•binge eating disorder (BED)
• other specified eating disorders (OSFED)
•selective eating disorder (SED )
•pervasive refusal syndrome

7. About Ellern Mede
Ellern Mede School has been rated “Outstanding” by Ofsted which
allows children and young people to continue with their learning whilst
they are with us. The school also support pupils who may be
transitioning home or back to their school. Alternatively, the school
can support pupils once they have been discharged if returning to
their own school is not an option.

8. About Ellern Mede
+44 (0)20 3209 7900
+44 (0)20 8906 1353
info@ellernmede.org
Head Office
Ellern Mede Ridgeway
Holcombe Hill
The Ridgeway
Mill Hill
London NW7 4HX