I am skinny (not too but almost too) and i want to gain weight but i always want to vomit whenever think about food even if its delicois. if anyone mentions food even a teacher i feel disgusted and uncomfortable. i can only eat at night, thats the only time i like eating otherwise if i eat any other time i will feel like i want to throw myself out the window cause i feel so bad, and no not mentally but physically
I used to think I didn't deserve peoples love, because the people I surrounded myself were toxic and didn't love me. I thought if I stopped eating, there would be less of me, and therefore less of me to have to love. I know it sounds really stupid now, but while my brain was neck deep in an ED, I really believed this.
I think an eating disorder is a way of screaming for help. I suffered from astral rape to a point of going crazy. Being violated could possibly drive you crazy. Now, I hardly eat, anything. I would be ok if I could live without food. I have other reasons for not eating but getting astral raped is a big one. I'll probably never eat normally again, but that's ok because you could just tell people that you are vegan. Pray that Jesus Christ will protect you from astral rape, only Jesus saves
You’ve made the subtle distinction multiple times how “they” are. I call bullshit. HIGHLY unlikely you are dedicating your entire practice to eating disorders if you weren’t/aren’t one of “them.”
I developed eating disorder because of my health and all those foods that harm me and I mustn't eat them but I often just lose it and then feel horrible physically. It's so tiring. But I will never get to live an ordinary life because of my disease…
I hope I can get help, I binge eat whenever I get sad, I sit in bed and I just eat and eat, I was skinny during the pandemic I was controlling my eating and I was good, and when I went back to school, I gained it all back and even gained more weight then before
I eat to where I feel like it’s not enough and I get anxiety when there is less food I feel like I need food to regulate my emotions if I don’t have it I feel depressed and live is no longer colorful and warm
Something else about ARFID, as someone who has a mild case of it, is that is extremely common in people who are also Neurodivergent (Autism, ADHD, OCD, Anxiety, most commonly)
A lot of neurodivergent folks struggle with sensory processing. Certain noises, textures, lights, colors, overwhelm their brains. Sometimes to the point of a breakdown.
It presents a little differently in OCD. Though I don’t have OCD, what I’ve read says that people who struggle with ARFID and OCD struggle more with the control of the food and fear. Some believe that if they eat certain foods, something bad will happen, and it creates a fear and obsession surrounding food in general.
It’s different for everyone, and usually depends on what other conditions they have in tandem with it. I myself have Anxiety and ADHD. And a massive part of it for me is the sensory aspect. It’s something I’ve struggled with a long time. Something that has caused me stress and lack of proper nutrition at times.
This might be where it gets a little triggering for people, so feel free to not read the rest, as this is my personal experience and I don’t want to hurt anyone. So (TW)
But it has gotten to the point various times where if I do not have my safe foods (foods that I can always fall on because they don’t cause distress) I will simply not eat. I know this is unhealthy, I know it is making me weak from lack of nutrition, but I can’t stop. Some foods are just too much for me to handle, even if they are good for my body. And that fact makes me feel less than sometimes.
But what has really helped me is my mom. She has struggled with food her whole life and she gets it. We don’t have the exact same issues with food, but she understands the hopelessness that come with any eating disorder. She’s helped me find healthy alternatives to certain foods that don’t trigger me, and has been overall very supportive. It makes a huge difference when there’s a supportive person in your life.
I used to have severe anoxrxia and orthorexia and i have been in and out of semi recovered states and eveeryday u have to choose recovery because it js so important to rewure the way ur brain thinks
Years ago I was in the worst domestic violence relationship. I went to the Doctor and told them I had a binge eating disorder . He told me to just start going to the gym. So I took charge- went to therapy- exercising- doing things instead of eating . Ended up finding the power inside to become better not just for my mind but body. Everyone is different. But I’m hoping you know you are so wonderful . And worthy . Also screw healthcare .
I'm a 48 year old male with ptsd and a terminal lung desease. Iv had an eating disorder most of my life through trauma. I get no help and no one in the medical field will take me seriously, and no one understands what I go through on a daily basis. Please spread more awareness that men suffer from EDs as well.
I don't know whats this but before 1 year I was passive and no activity and started eating more and went 63~kg and I never been that weight and I didn't much liked so I decided to go -5kg so I started diet for sometime and then after a while I didn't even need diet cause I didn't have appetite and this year I am 54~kg so i was minus 10kg~ and those last month I eat very little amounts of food and sometime I only eat 1 meal example lunch and I don't care to eat more and when I start eating then it comes to a point that I can't continue to eat more cause i start having a vomiting feeling sensation on my body ,stomach , it discuss even the idea of keep eating i just canot keep eat it cause i feel like vomiting the food so I stop there and don't eat more.
yep trauma created arfid disorder in me that was not great until my early 20s I’m 22 now and some of that traumatic pain has lessened. it’s about control. it’s about euphoria. it was most certainly for me an addiction to that altered like state of operating on nothing. it is a high without drugs which realistically is better. i was never dramatically underweight but i have always been directly on the right side of the line between an unhealthy weight and healthy weight. i’m talking two less pounds and i am “underweight”.
It's amazing how even people with restrictive diets for health reasons is now an eating disorder. We been so traumatized by modern society and the lies of the food industry that the pendulum of health has swung to far in the other direction.
It’s possible to heal. The second I got away from my toxic family I healed on my own with a lot of effort and dedication. My now 85 year old dad is refusing food, and acutely depressed with psychosis and this is his way of controlling a situation he’s not in control of (my mom with dementia who hoards food). Really sad. Take care of yourself now! Don’t wait for things to get better…they only get worse if left unattended
Too many food related punishments as a kid. I can’t relate to people who love food. I can physically feel the hunger pains, but I’ve been able to ignore them for so long I don’t get the urge to eat . It’s such a chore. Sometimes I will go without Untill my blood sugar is low enough I have to but then it’ll be a smoothie or juice .
Im struggling so bad right now 😢 Developed restrictive eating at 12, by 14 i was a full blown anorexic. By 16 i started vomiting.
Im turning 29 in 2 months and im still battling this disorder. Im currently in "recovery" and im not happy with how much i gained and i honestly miss the feeling of accomplishment when im able to go a day without eating… im strugg6
Though anorexia might be over body image, it can also be control, need for attention / love, to change your body after being assaulted, and even for self harm and as the specialist said in this video, to numb certain feelings. It's super complex and is a MENTAL disorder.
every time i eat a meal i get anxious and nauseous…is this ARFID??? i went to the Dr and they did blood work and a stool test, yet nothing was found (other than low vitamin D) so i don’t know if it’s physical like (GERD) i think it’s more psychological/mental for me. this happens DAILY and im tired of it.
I am concerned that I might have an eating disorder, and I am wondering if it’s just me or if I should see a doctor. When I was in high school I weighed 128 pounds. By the 11th grade I weighed 156. Then I graduated and started living on my own and I had to quit my job due to personal reasons but I ended up starving myself for two months because I didn’t have a car or money or anything. I lost 40 pounds in those two months and I weigh 115 now, which is concerning since I am 20 years old and I weigh less than I did in 9th grade. Ever since I went through those two months of hardly eating anything but peanut butter, I haven’t been able to eat that well. I’ve had food aversions, the thought of eating makes me feel sick, but I am so hungry all the time and I tried telling my therapist but they won’t listen to me. I was fat shamed before and now I can’t eat at all. I eat one meal a day that usually consists of a couple bites of food and something to drink like Gatorade. How can I improve so that I can actually eat without feeling like I’m going to vomit?
I don’t know if I even have a disorder, but during the day I try not to eat anything unless it’s healthy so sometimes I’ll eat an apple or a salad then at night I try not to eat but no matter how hard I try I eat so much. Like cakes, chocolate, ice cream. I talked to a friend and she said that’s not an eating disorder because I can still eat and it’s not like I’m just starving myself or just binging.
I wanted control I didn't want love. I wanted to be beautiful and to fit into pretty clothes and look good in everything. I wanted my stomach to feel empty. I felt a sense of accomplishment most days when I would be below my calorie count and above my exercise goals. I liked grocery shopping for hours looking at the labels, comparing and contrasting. I liked diligently writing everything I ate and drank down in a notebook everyday to add the calories up and have them be less than 800 or 600 or 400. What I didn't like was when I started throwing up, but it helped when I would binge. It made me feel better, like less panicked I also didn't like when I relapsed on alcohol because I let go of my extremely strict intake rules. It sucked. I'm overweight now. The worst. I'd rather be dead.
Sorry darling 3:31 economic factors on a scale like you insist on, all people suffer eating disorders. Bam Magera etc rich people struggle almost more, it's hard having great food around inviting the senses but not being to eat or eating becoming a chore is actually more difficult when the food is more delicious and plentiful to eat, otherwise you wouldn't have an eating disorder. Eating a $10 lamb pie makes me sick, I sneeze alot and can't finish a small delicious pie. She looks like a nutritious dietician they are usually tall skinny blonde ladies with.. Irish descent
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Alcoholics is not about alcohol it’s a tool and a symptom to so much like eating disorders and lots of us woman cycle back and forth.
I am skinny (not too but almost too) and i want to gain weight but i always want to vomit whenever think about food even if its delicois. if anyone mentions food even a teacher i feel disgusted and uncomfortable. i can only eat at night, thats the only time i like eating otherwise if i eat any other time i will feel like i want to throw myself out the window cause i feel so bad, and no not mentally but physically
How are you an eating disorder specialist?
I used to think I didn't deserve peoples love, because the people I surrounded myself were toxic and didn't love me. I thought if I stopped eating, there would be less of me, and therefore less of me to have to love. I know it sounds really stupid now, but while my brain was neck deep in an ED, I really believed this.
I think an eating disorder is a way of screaming for help. I suffered from astral rape to a point of going crazy. Being violated could possibly drive you crazy. Now, I hardly eat, anything. I would be ok if I could live without food. I have other reasons for not eating but getting astral raped is a big one. I'll probably never eat normally again, but that's ok because you could just tell people that you are vegan. Pray that Jesus Christ will protect you from astral rape, only Jesus saves
You’ve made the subtle distinction multiple times how “they” are. I call bullshit. HIGHLY unlikely you are dedicating your entire practice to eating disorders if you weren’t/aren’t one of “them.”
I developed eating disorder because of my health and all those foods that harm me and I mustn't eat them but I often just lose it and then feel horrible physically. It's so tiring. But I will never get to live an ordinary life because of my disease…
I hope I can get help, I binge eat whenever I get sad, I sit in bed and I just eat and eat, I was skinny during the pandemic I was controlling my eating and I was good, and when I went back to school, I gained it all back and even gained more weight then before
Attention. People use eating disorders to get attention. Sad.
I eat to where I feel like it’s not enough and I get anxiety when there is less food I feel like I need food to regulate my emotions if I don’t have it I feel depressed and live is no longer colorful and warm
Also, most a people who have an Ed are not underweight , so therefore others or even themselves don't know they need help.
i want to get treatment or help but I'm scared to ask my parents or even have my siblings know.
Something else about ARFID, as someone who has a mild case of it, is that is extremely common in people who are also Neurodivergent (Autism, ADHD, OCD, Anxiety, most commonly)
A lot of neurodivergent folks struggle with sensory processing. Certain noises, textures, lights, colors, overwhelm their brains. Sometimes to the point of a breakdown.
It presents a little differently in OCD. Though I don’t have OCD, what I’ve read says that people who struggle with ARFID and OCD struggle more with the control of the food and fear. Some believe that if they eat certain foods, something bad will happen, and it creates a fear and obsession surrounding food in general.
It’s different for everyone, and usually depends on what other conditions they have in tandem with it. I myself have Anxiety and ADHD. And a massive part of it for me is the sensory aspect. It’s something I’ve struggled with a long time. Something that has caused me stress and lack of proper nutrition at times.
This might be where it gets a little triggering for people, so feel free to not read the rest, as this is my personal experience and I don’t want to hurt anyone. So (TW)
But it has gotten to the point various times where if I do not have my safe foods (foods that I can always fall on because they don’t cause distress) I will simply not eat. I know this is unhealthy, I know it is making me weak from lack of nutrition, but I can’t stop. Some foods are just too much for me to handle, even if they are good for my body. And that fact makes me feel less than sometimes.
But what has really helped me is my mom. She has struggled with food her whole life and she gets it. We don’t have the exact same issues with food, but she understands the hopelessness that come with any eating disorder. She’s helped me find healthy alternatives to certain foods that don’t trigger me, and has been overall very supportive. It makes a huge difference when there’s a supportive person in your life.
I'm getting through trauma and just shut down a lot of the time when it comes to eating.
I used to have severe anoxrxia and orthorexia and i have been in and out of semi recovered states and eveeryday u have to choose recovery because it js so important to rewure the way ur brain thinks
I'm traumatized as hell right now and do not feel like eating for almost 3 days, I think I have this disorder.
This women is the best person on earth
Years ago I was in the worst domestic violence relationship. I went to the Doctor and told them I had a binge eating disorder . He told me to just start going to the gym. So I took charge- went to therapy- exercising- doing things instead of eating . Ended up finding the power inside to become better not just for my mind but body. Everyone is different. But I’m hoping you know you are so wonderful . And worthy . Also screw healthcare .
I think that there’s a lot more to eating disorders than meets the eye. I think it’s like a disease of the soul. It’s really sad and really bad.
I'm a 48 year old male with ptsd and a terminal lung desease. Iv had an eating disorder most of my life through trauma. I get no help and no one in the medical field will take me seriously, and no one understands what I go through on a daily basis. Please spread more awareness that men suffer from EDs as well.
I don't know whats this but before 1 year I was passive and no activity and started eating more and went 63~kg and I never been that weight and I didn't much liked so I decided to go -5kg so I started diet for sometime and then after a while I didn't even need diet cause I didn't have appetite and this year I am 54~kg so i was minus 10kg~ and those last month I eat
very little amounts of food and sometime I only eat 1 meal example lunch and I don't care to eat more and when I start eating then it comes to a point that I can't continue to eat more cause i start having a vomiting feeling sensation on my body ,stomach , it discuss even the idea of keep eating i just canot keep eat it cause i feel like vomiting the food so I stop there and don't eat more.
yep trauma created arfid disorder in me that was not great until my early 20s I’m 22 now and some of that traumatic pain has lessened. it’s about control. it’s about euphoria. it was most certainly for me an addiction to that altered like state of operating on nothing. it is a high without drugs which realistically is better. i was never dramatically underweight but i have always been directly on the right side of the line between an unhealthy weight and healthy weight. i’m talking two less pounds and i am “underweight”.
It's amazing how even people with restrictive diets for health reasons is now an eating disorder. We been so traumatized by modern society and the lies of the food industry that the pendulum of health has swung to far in the other direction.
It’s possible to heal. The second I got away from my toxic family I healed on my own with a lot of effort and dedication. My now 85 year old dad is refusing food, and acutely depressed with psychosis and this is his way of controlling a situation he’s not in control of (my mom with dementia who hoards food). Really sad. Take care of yourself now! Don’t wait for things to get better…they only get worse if left unattended
I just want to feel better
I get hungry but then I go eat and I can’t eat I just feel sick if I eat but I am so hungry and if I do eat I have a stomache
That’s me right now it happened after I lost my dog I can’t do anything since then I can’t eat sleep lots of aniexty feeling sick
Too many food related punishments as a kid. I can’t relate to people who love food. I can physically feel the hunger pains, but I’ve been able to ignore them for so long I don’t get the urge to eat . It’s such a chore. Sometimes I will go without Untill my blood sugar is low enough I have to but then it’ll be a smoothie or juice .
Im struggling so bad right now 😢
Developed restrictive eating at 12, by 14 i was a full blown anorexic. By 16 i started vomiting.
Im turning 29 in 2 months and im still battling this disorder. Im currently in "recovery" and im not happy with how much i gained and i honestly miss the feeling of accomplishment when im able to go a day without eating… im strugg6
Though anorexia might be over body image, it can also be control, need for attention / love, to change your body after being assaulted, and even for self harm and as the specialist said in this video, to numb certain feelings. It's super complex and is a MENTAL disorder.
every time i eat a meal i get anxious and nauseous…is this ARFID??? i went to the Dr and they did blood work and a stool test, yet nothing was found (other than low vitamin D) so i don’t know if it’s physical like (GERD) i think it’s more psychological/mental for me. this happens DAILY and im tired of it.
I am concerned that I might have an eating disorder, and I am wondering if it’s just me or if I should see a doctor. When I was in high school I weighed 128 pounds. By the 11th grade I weighed 156. Then I graduated and started living on my own and I had to quit my job due to personal reasons but I ended up starving myself for two months because I didn’t have a car or money or anything. I lost 40 pounds in those two months and I weigh 115 now, which is concerning since I am 20 years old and I weigh less than I did in 9th grade. Ever since I went through those two months of hardly eating anything but peanut butter, I haven’t been able to eat that well. I’ve had food aversions, the thought of eating makes me feel sick, but I am so hungry all the time and I tried telling my therapist but they won’t listen to me. I was fat shamed before and now I can’t eat at all. I eat one meal a day that usually consists of a couple bites of food and something to drink like Gatorade. How can I improve so that I can actually eat without feeling like I’m going to vomit?
I don’t know if I even have a disorder, but during the day I try not to eat anything unless it’s healthy so sometimes I’ll eat an apple or a salad then at night I try not to eat but no matter how hard I try I eat so much. Like cakes, chocolate, ice cream. I talked to a friend and she said that’s not an eating disorder because I can still eat and it’s not like I’m just starving myself or just binging.
I wanted control I didn't want love. I wanted to be beautiful and to fit into pretty clothes and look good in everything. I wanted my stomach to feel empty. I felt a sense of accomplishment most days when I would be below my calorie count and above my exercise goals. I liked grocery shopping for hours looking at the labels, comparing and contrasting.
I liked diligently writing everything I ate and drank down in a notebook everyday to add the calories up and have them be less than 800 or 600 or 400.
What I didn't like was when I started throwing up, but it helped when I would binge. It made me feel better, like less panicked
I also didn't like when I relapsed on alcohol because I let go of my extremely strict intake rules. It sucked. I'm overweight now. The worst. I'd rather be dead.
I don't want any association with u oversmart people..
I am not eating I'm dying over eating disorder I can't poop or pee
Thank you for making this video, it brought me so much comfort.
THANK YOU. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
She is very beautiful woman 👩
Sorry darling 3:31 economic factors on a scale like you insist on, all people suffer eating disorders. Bam Magera etc rich people struggle almost more, it's hard having great food around inviting the senses but not being to eat or eating becoming a chore is actually more difficult when the food is more delicious and plentiful to eat, otherwise you wouldn't have an eating disorder. Eating a $10 lamb pie makes me sick, I sneeze alot and can't finish a small delicious pie. She looks like a nutritious dietician they are usually tall skinny blonde ladies with.. Irish descent