When food choices begin to feel like strict tests you must pass, it can be difficult to explain what is happening. This reflection helps separate rules around eating, pressure about body shape, and the effect on everyday life.
Free Anorexia Signs Test includes 36 questions. Allow about 7-10 minutes, with time to pause. The questionnaire and basic information are free. Optional detailed analysis, the complete answer review and the companion e-book are available for a one-time fee. You decide whether to purchase those additions.
What the questions explore
Pressure around eating
Food-related rules, hesitation and loss of flexibility. Describe one recent meal situation in ordinary language: what was happening, what rule appeared, and what that rule prevented. You do not need calorie totals or body measurements to explain the problem. A helpful conversation starts with the difficulty the rule creates, rather than an argument about whether a particular food is acceptable.
Body-related pressure
How body concerns affect attention, mood and self-evaluation. Body-related thoughts can feel persuasive without providing a fair description of you. Notice the difference between a thought, an emotion and a conclusion. When a thought says that your worth depends on appearance, record its wording and the situation in which it became loudest, rather than trying to prove your worth by changing your body.
Effect on daily life
The space these concerns take from energy, connection and ordinary activities. Interference matters even when it is hard to describe a particular symptom. A missed invitation, difficulty concentrating or uncertainty about asking for company can explain more than a single number. Choose an ordinary example that shows what your day has become harder to do and who could help with that part.
How to answer
Answer about the past four weeks. Read each statement separately and choose the frequency that fits your experience. Use your own recent experience rather than what you think you should feel. You may pause or stop. Fainting, chest pain, confusion, severe dehydration or inability to keep fluids down need prompt medical attention. Seek urgent care rather than waiting for a questionnaire or purchasing a report.
What you receive for free
After answering, you receive brief information based on your responses, with practical context for your next step. This basic information is free, including essential guidance about when to seek support. You can read it before deciding whether a more detailed report would be useful.
What the optional detailed analysis adds
The paid report expands the response summary, explains what the answers do and do not support, and includes a complete answer review. The companion e-book helps you organise observations, prepare useful questions and plan a conversation about support. Purchase is a single optional payment, with no subscription or automatic renewal.
Understanding the limits
This is an original Mind Indicator reflection questionnaire, not a validated clinical scale. It has not been independently validated or normed. It describes experiences you report, not a probability of having a condition or a clinical severity rating. Each area contains 12 direct-scored items, each rated 0-4. An area summary is round(raw points / 48 * 100). The 0-33, 34-66 and 67-100 descriptions are editorial frequency summaries, not clinical cutoffs. There is no overall illness score. Physical health, current risk and appropriate care require individual professional assessment; a lower score does not rule out a problem.
Support comes before a score
Fainting, chest pain, confusion, severe dehydration or inability to keep fluids down need prompt medical attention. Seek urgent care rather than waiting for a questionnaire or purchasing a report.
A useful way to follow up
Save one ordinary example that explains why you chose your answers. Keep the description concrete: what changed, what was difficult, how it affected your routine and what help you would like. A questionnaire can organise that information, but it cannot consider everything a health professional would ask about. You can seek support even if your answers do not fit a neat category.
