Eating · Behavior Monitoring
Emotion → ED Behavior Chain Analysis
DBT chain, specialized for the day a behavior happens
A DBT-style chain analysis specialized for ED behaviors. Prompting event, vulnerability factors, the emotion the behavior actually regulates, the chain of links to the behavior, consequences, and where a skill could have broken the chain earlier. Do this the day the behavior happens.
The ED behavior (restrict, binge, purge, over-exercise, check)
Vulnerability factors (under-eaten, under-slept, alcohol, hormones, stress)
Prompting event
The emotion the behavior was actually regulating
The chain of links
Link
Thought / feeling / sensation / action
Consequences
Short-term (what the behavior did for me)
Long-term (cost across body / relationships / values)
Earliest link where a skill could have broken the chain
The skill I'll try next time
Repair — what I need to do now (eat replacement, tell someone, hydrate)
Behavior is data
A slip is not proof recovery is failing — it is a chain we can now see. Analyzed early and honestly, one chain teaches more than a week of avoiding the topic.