Mortality in AN is amongst the highest of all psychiatric disorders (Hoang, Goldacre, & James, 2014), with suicide being one of the leading causes of death and implicated in about 20% of deaths (Arcelus et al., 2011). According to a recent meta-analysis, individuals with AN have an 18.1 [95% confidence interval (CI): 11.5, 28.7] times higher risk of dying from suicide than the general population of females aged 15–34 years (Keshaviah et al., 2014). Although the suicide rate in those with AN may be declining in recent decades (Preti et al., 2011), it remains substantially elevated compared with the general population (Pisetsky et al., 2013). Additionally, the lifetime prevalence of SA in patients ranges from 3.0%–29.7% (Bulik et al., 2008; Forcano et al., 2011; Franko & Keel, 2006; Runfola et al., 2014). According to the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide, an individual has to have both an increased fearlessness about death and an increased tolerance to pain in order to be capable of attempting suicide (Ribeiro et al., 2014). The repeated exposure to pain via restriction (Selby et al., 2010) coupled
