Feeling out of control around eating and then feeling driven to make up for it can become a difficult cycle to talk about. The questions focus on experience and its impact, without asking for calorie totals, body measurements or instructions for compensatory behaviour.
Free Bulimia Self-Check includes 39 questions. Allow about 8-11 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
Feeling out of control
Experiences of difficult-to-regulate eating and distress around it. When an eating experience felt out of control, begin with the surrounding situation rather than criticism. You might record the place, what was happening beforehand and how you felt afterwards. There is no need to calculate an amount of food or compare the episode with someone else's experience to make the distress worth discussing.
Pressure to make up for eating
Distress and urges to undo eating, without details about methods. The pressure to make up for eating is a reason to seek support, not a moral failing. This report intentionally gives no instructions for compensating and no targets involving food amounts, weight or exercise. Those details are unnecessary for explaining that a cycle feels difficult to interrupt.
Shame and disruption
How eating distress affects daily routines and access to support. Secrecy can make an already difficult situation feel more isolated. A first conversation does not need to include every event, an explanation of why it happened or a promise that it will never happen again. You can start with the effect on concentration, relationships or your ability to feel settled after eating.
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. Vomiting blood, fainting, chest pain, marked weakness, confusion or difficulty keeping fluids down need urgent medical attention. Do not wait for a score or paid report to seek help.
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 13 direct-scored items, each rated 0-4. An area summary is round(raw points / 52 * 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
Vomiting blood, fainting, chest pain, marked weakness, confusion or difficulty keeping fluids down need urgent medical attention. Do not wait for a score or paid report to seek help.
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.
