{"id":125211,"date":"2025-04-27T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/morbid-picky-utterance\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:19:57","slug":"morbid-picky-utterance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/morbid-picky-utterance\/","title":{"rendered":"Morbid picky – utterance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Food has always been my biggest enemy. Ever since early childhood, I have been exceptionally picky. In my worst, I could count the number of “safe” food types on one hand. I refused to try new things. Was I really just stubborn and picky, or was there any more behind? Today I know that the problem is due to a little known eating disorder called arphid. It can work out in several ways. The main features are based on limited variation in diet, or lack of interest in food. Unlike several other eating disorders, it is not about body, appearance or emotional regulation. For me, the cause was intense fear of foreign foods. The most minimal changes caused such fear: it could be new packaging, different texture, unfamiliar odor – whatever separated the item from the usual. For example, bread slices became unsafe after I found a seed that was a little too big. Fruits and vegetables have always been excluded. “Safe” food developed vomiting. While other children grew off childhood’s discerning eating habits, my list of “safe” food was just narrower and narrower the older I got. The aversion never was about not liking various types of food – I felt directly disgust at everything that differed from the safe. My mother sought advice from health nurses, all of whom considered it a state of typical discovery. Arfid was not a well -known theme. However, this “discovery unit” was so extreme that it charged both me and my family to a great extent. As a child, I wasolated from social activities, for fear that food was involved. How would I explain to the other primary school students that I couldn’t eat the same as them? That I could just have french fries, while all ate hamburgers at McDonalds? The few times I participated in overnight stays and similarly I did everything between heaven and earth to avoid eating. So I participated little, and my parents were worried. The conflicts at home grew as the “circuit unit” did not subside. Nobody understood why I couldn’t just eat, or at least taste the food they had made. Why was sudden polar bread with brown cheese wrong when I had eaten it so many times before? Was it really so hard to just try? There was no explanation because no one knew about Arfid. This helped neither my conscience nor my self -esteem. I thought I was all alone in the world with these shameful difficulties. In my early adolescence, my eating disorder was at its worst. Almost no food felt “safe” anymore. At the same time, I tried to hide the eating habits from everyone, to keep them satisfied. I never ate with others and isolated around the clock. Especially when I began to feel a pressure on health and health. After all, I almost only lived on chocolate and Capri-SUN, while nutrition and diet were promoted everywhere in the media. The health pressure increased my insecurity around food – I was ashamed so much. My eating thread caused me to lose weight. I was quite overweight, but soon came down in underweight. Since I was an insecure youth girl, many people thought I was slimming. They also believed so at BUP, although I had previously asked for help with my selective eating habits. At this time, the shame was so built into me that I just played with. I would rather be seen as an anorectic than as childish, special and picky. After several years of malpractice and bad conscience, I finally got an answer as to why I can’t just “eat normally”: I have the eating disorder Arfid. Learning that my eating habits actually have a real cause gave me the relief I so desperately needed. Today I dare to be open with those around me, so I get the support I need from family and close. I no longer feel that I have to be ashamed, or that I am all alone. Openness is so important – both to reduce shame and to work towards a good help offer. This is arfid avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (arfid) means that the person has a very limited dietary repertoire, because the person deliberately avoids specific types of foods. The disease often debuts early in childhood by the child avoiding or reducing the intake of certain foods and often eating no more than 10 different foods, often with the same texture, color or food from the same food group. The condition can persist into adolescence and adulthood. The mental symptoms typical of anorexia and bulimia, which disturbed body image and great fear of putting on, are not present. Source: Netros.no Send us your utterance Want to write? Feel free to contact us in news Ytring with your post. The guidelines can be found here. Published 27.04.2025, at. 16.52
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