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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 12.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2019 Aug 5;52(10):1150–1156. doi: 10.1002/eat.23148

TABLE 1.

Paraphrased passages from posts that do (positive) and do not (negative) indicate an immediate need for intervention

Passage Label
This experience has taught me so much. I now know that my body needs food to work properly, and that starving my body only harms it. Negative
My urge to binge went away after I ate the dessert, so I did not binge for the whole day. Negative
I used to binge for a whole week once I slipped up just once, but this time will be different. Negative
My eating disorder controls everything I do. Positive
I do not know how much longer I can go on like this before it feels like death is a better option. Positive
I binged again last night and my body and brain keep telling me that I need to fast today to counteract the binging. Positive