eating disorder
Let an agent respond to eating disorder topics safely: route people in crisis or at medical risk to urgent help first, point to specialist support services, avoid numbers or behaviours that could harm, and give no diagnosis.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent respond to eating disorder topics safely: route people in crisis or at medical risk to urgent help first, point to specialist support services, avoid numbers or behaviours that could harm, and give no diagnosis.
A mental health condition characterised by persistent disturbances in eating behaviour and related thoughts and feelings, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and ARFID; treatable, and serious enough to need professional care.
What it is for: A health topic where accurate, safe information and support routes matter.
It can be route people in crisis to emergency or helpline support; find specialist eating disorder services and charities; support family and friends to seek help; share recovery-focused, non-triggering information.
Distinguishing features
Serious mental health condition
Physical health risks
Recovery is possible with treatment
Stigma can delay help
What it looks like
Not visible in many cases; people of any size, age or gender can be affected.
How it is recognised
Recognised diagnoses in ICD-11 and DSM-5
Can affect anyone
Picky eating in young children is usually different
Related models
is a kind of - category
is treated by - care
is classified in - classification
is supported by - support
In practice
Families and kinds
anorexia nervosa
bulimia nervosa
binge eating disorder
avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
other specified feeding or eating disorders
Identifiers
ICD-11 6B8 feeding or eating disorders block
Standards and regulation
National clinical guidelines such as NICE NG69
Safe messaging guidelines for media and online content
Failure modes and hazards
Content that gives weight, calorie or behaviour details that could harm
Delaying urgent medical care
Agents diagnosing or judging
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.eating-disorder
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Crisis Safety first.
Crisis support comes first.
Urgent
Medical risk.
Urgent
Urgent risk.
- Is the person at immediate medical risk or in crisis, including thoughts of self-harm? boundary
- Which emergency number or crisis line should be contacted now? action
Helpline
Specialist support.
Helpline
Specialist helplines.
- Which eating disorder helpline or charity serves this country? provenance
- How can it be reached? action
Care Getting help.
Professionals diagnose and treat.
First step
Seeing a clinician.
First step
Seeing a clinician.
- How can someone arrange to see a doctor about eating concerns? action
- What can they expect at the appointment, in general terms? provenance
Diagnosis
No self-diagnosis.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis limit.
- Is the user asking the agent to diagnose them or someone else? boundary
- How should they be referred to a clinician instead? action
Carers Family and friends.
Carers need support too.
Approach
Starting a conversation.
Approach
Supporting someone.
- How can a family member raise concerns supportively, according to specialist charities? provenance
- What should they avoid saying? provenance
Support
Carer services.
Support
Carer support.
- Which support exists for carers? provenance
- How can it be accessed? action
Handling Safe messaging.
Content must not harm.
Safe
No harmful detail.
Safe
Safe messaging.
- Does the response avoid numbers, behaviours or images that could harm? boundary
- Is it recovery-focused? boundary
Stigma
Respect.
Stigma
Stigma.
- Does the language avoid stigma and stereotypes about who is affected? boundary
- Is it person-first and respectful? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- How should alias lists be filtered for this entry?
- How should helplines be localised?
- How should safe messaging be enforced?