This isn't just picky eating. Lots of people have a history of food trauma such as choking/being strangled, or sensory processing disorder, chronic GI issues like chronic nausea/vomiting or abdominal pain, they can have ocd, or anxiety, or even a history of abuse. People need to stop saying "just make them eat it" and figure out WHY this developed in the first place. Therapy is essential.
I Absolutely 💯 % agree with you as I've Suffered with Anorexia with binge purge subtype for the past 34 years now and I'm currently 49 years old and I'm So Lucky that I've managed to have four grown up Sons Xx
Choking phobia here - didn’t eat anything solid for 3 years. Just chocolate and cream cheese as I could melt it into a liquid in my mouth. Ended up in eating disorder unit at 6 stone (I’m 5ft 8) diagnosed as anorexic ?!
Wow some people are judgemental and close-minded. I can't say I'm surprised. I'm 28 years old, and was diagnosed with ARFID only four months ago but I have suffered for over two years now. I was not a "picky" eater, I was actually a huge foodie who would try anything. One day I woke up, and I couldn't eat nor drink. My body just couldn't. I want to make this loud and clear for those in the back: THERE IS NO CHOOSING. You do not CHOOSE to have this illness, nor how you will react to a food. Being judgemental, calling names or refusing to believe in someone with this diagnosis will only worsen it. I have a very positive attitude and that's the only thing that keeps me going. I keep telling myself that I have beaten so many things, I can find a way around this, too. I will find a way or die trying. But it's extremely difficult. I lost half my body weight, and am now on the path to being underweight. I sit down and I stare at my plate, and I try everything I can think of - sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't. I am hopeful about research being done about this illness. Like another comment mentioned, it is usually associated with autism - it doesn't mean you are autistic, though. In my case, it comes from another very typical comorbidity which is OCD. There are a lot of similarities, and learning to differentiate is key to your treament. I also have anxiety and depression, but OCD is the worst of them all. Again, this is a brain illness. I never chose this, I want it to go away, and I hate it but I have no option other than accepting it. I believe through science and research, we will find more about this. In my case, I can relate ARFID triggering to a series of very traumatic events that happened at once and I couldn't cope with, so I shut down and ignored the feelings until they came out as this ED. Not having energy, social outings, the Holidays - all of these things are a nightmare for someone with ARFID. Imagine having a very strong fear of spiders, a very common phobia. A fear so bad that it can trigger a panic attack. I would never downplay any phobia and their struggle, but now imagine the phobia is of food. You can, to a certain extent, avoid spiders and find ways to reduce the chances of ever seeing one. You can't stop eating, or you will die. Someone who has ARFID has to face, every day, a phobia that goes beyond our understanding and that appeared out of nowhere. You have no idea how difficult it is, to wonder if you're on your path to death, to ask yourself why is your brain trying to kill you. So I suggest you practice some empathy. ARFID is an ED, and a very difficult illness. It affects every aspect of your life, because food is a basic need and tied to family, friends, activities, etc. For the people struggling with ARFID, do not feel invalidated by any of the people here. Do not stop trying, even on the weeks when it feels like it's impossible. Do not blame yourself. Be kind to yourself because you will need your own help, too, to get through this. I send you love, understanding and a tight hug. Cheers.
This happened to many people after Covid. It is known as parosmia or anosmia depending on how severe the damage to olfactory nerve it is. Covid caused ARFID is quite common now.
A little over halfway through and I'm frustrated that at no point have they mentioned autism. They've even kind of gone out of their way to avoid it. Those two people helping the children in the room, with their rainbow charts and their bouncy ball to help calm someone with sensory sensitivities from 'being too overwhelmed?' They are saying 'many of the people we help are autistic,' without saying it. (Edit: autism is never mentioned at all.) ARFID is a frequent companion to autism, and all of the difficulties the people displaying those traits in this video have, directly line up with sensory needs/avoidances linked to autism. Only being able to tolerate foods at certain temperatures. Having heightened awareness of smells. Prefering standardized, mass-produced food with predictable outcomes, over homemade, variable options. Being adverse to certain textures. Not being able to deal with certain intense tastes, or near-tasteless things (both extremes of the flavor scale.). Please, if you relate to this video... learn about autism. Find a community of autistics to guide you through your journey as you learn how to accommodate yourself, and find ways to live a much fuller and richer life, even if it looks absolutely nothing like the lives of non-autistics. The people with ARFID in this video could have potentially had more success if the specificities of their aversions and preferences were identified, and real thoughtfulness was put into adapting their diets within that framework so that it fit their nutritional needs and did not risk inducing a meltdown.
Jup! My daughter has autism, ADHD and ARFID, and the doctor who's helping her says almost all of her clients have autism. I have autism myself and was a very fussy eater myself when I was young. What my daughter has and the fussy eater I was are kinda different though. For me the problem was mostly the way how my parents were giving the food (lots of stuff mashed together, lots of different structures, a lot of flavours I didn't like), while my daughter just cannot bring herself to put anything in her mouth because it's a phobia for her. I'm not at the end of the vid yet though, still hoping they'll mention something about a correlation.
@@H4CK41D But common knowledge about autism is basically nonexistent outside of the autistic community. Sure, we can spot one of our own once we, ourselves, know... but imagine not knowing anything about autism, not knowing YOU are autistic, and coming across this video that just so happens to describe quite a lot of your food struggles. And not once, beyond the comments section on that video on UA-cam, is it ever mentioned that ARFID and autism are frequently comorbid. It's worth mentioning, even just quickly in one line, to give the people looking for clues about themselves or someone they know, a little thread to follow.
Some people In these comments are obscure. “Starve until they eat” or blaming it on the parents smh. Honestly you can’t possibly understand it unless you have it.
@@christinajones6500 Yeah but starving just doesn't work, as someone who has it. I'd really rather starvs to death than eat what I can't. You need to understand that you can't just force everything, learn empathy.
I've worked with kids with this disorder. The therapists at the mental health facility I worked at had never heard of ARFID. I had to send them articles about it. I was like "Hey, this kid is getting so upset that they are self-harming at the idea of eating anything other than grilled cheese. It's not just picky eating!" I always did my best to advocate for all the kids I worked with and would do my best to try to understand where they were coming from, even when the rest of the staff were complaining about a kid "just being difficult". It broke my heart to see kids who were clearly suffering with something that other people just didn't understand.
I have Crohn’s disease. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was around 29. My entire childhood my mom would constantly nag at me when I would try something and then vomit or have horrible stomach pain. She would say I was being “dramatic” or I was “faking it” or “just had a touchy stomach.” My parents are first Gen Italian. Food is a big deal. And ya, some of the foods would taste good but after being forced to eat it once then getting sick, I never wanted it again. I have been both under and overweight at different points in my life. When I was diagnosed with Crohn’s, my mom felt HORRIBLE. I keep a food journal now to track my trigger foods and I am careful. It’s a constant medical and physical battle. But when I finally saw a nutritionist and GI doc and a therapist, I finally realized what was going on and it has helped me so much. Diet is personal and can be so isolating. But there is hope. I never thought I would be able to get past my issues. I’ll always have Crohn’s. But I’ve stopped looking at food as the enemy and that has helped. ❤
Some foods are enemies to us, unfortunately. I have restricted more than 50 foods in order to survive, amlnd is getting harder and harder. Life is a struggle. Wishing u best of luck. ❤️
I know a couple of adults with this disorder. They want to eat food that everyone else enjoy, but they can't. In one case, a friend's daughter would only eat white bread, carrots & fish sticks. Her other kids eat everything. She's expanded her food choices, but they're still very limited. I know that when my son was young, I did not expose him to 'kid food' (after he could eat solids). He ate what we ate. It usually takes kids 7 tries of a food to accept it. I was blessed to have a good eater. He is now an adult & very adventurous eater.
This is what people don’t get. I would LOVE to just eat a chicken breast like a normal person lol. Protein not from a shake? YES PLEASE. But i would literally gag to the point of vomiting. I want to be normal.
i feel for them because i have autism and i relate alot. luckily i am nowhere near a picky eater as them but i can still be quite picky depending on the foods texture or smell and it can be annoying.
Thanks for this! Before this documentary I thought that that is just my personal problem. I live with this for 30 years and keep constantly hearing that I'm just capricious person. I eat almost no fruits and vegetables for all my life. Even if somebody mix all the product that I accept there is a 1% probability I'll eat it. I even cannot touch most of fruit it just makes me sick. Luckily I would name me a pretty healthy guy so far which kind of surprises everyone around me. However of course it brings a lot of discomfort to everyday life especially when I have to eat somewhere outside my home. I wish more medical people know about ARFID and how to treat it. Thanks again!
I learnt about ARFID only a couple of years ago and I actually had it all my life. I am so happy that I am not just a crazy person but that there actually is a diagnose and we are not alone in this. Lets hope awareness will grow in future and with this coming better knowledge in the medical and therapeutical field.
My mom was told to let me eat what I wanted until I got tired or bored so I wouldn’t starve. Now I have gastroparesis and I want to eat all kinds of food, and can’t, so I am stuck with the same kind of food that hasn’t make me sick. But my mom did forced me to eat until the pediatrician told her what I wrote above.
I have lactose intolerance. From age 7 I would have issues with my underwear, stomach pains and throwing up after eating certain things. Luckily while I didn't have much choice over my breakfast I mostly ate the dinners I wanted.
I have gastroparesis too. Before I got diagnosed, I would mostly just eat breakfast cereal and a few other things. Everything else made my stomach hurt so bad. My mom thought I was anorexic. After some treatments and surgeries, I am doing much better now. I can almost eat like normal again. I am able to maintain a healthy weight again.
I started throwing up in my mid fifties. Today I threw up like a paper grocery bag amount. Then I ate saltines with peanut butter. I feel a lot better. I feel bad for people who have my problem.
i wonder how many children and adults will go undiagnosed because their few safe foods are relatively healthy. seems like it’s easier to notice this variety issue when kids rely on unhealthy sugary foods.
I feel like all the things WE just find names for, Always have been here before,latest since humans learned to Walk but either people got physically punished through IT or died due to the then unaccessible and unknown sideeffects.😢 If people can care about psyche and mind we live in a rather good time. Sadly those good times seem limited and hardly reach a century so Humanity is Always going on From Level 1.
As someone who is suffering from ARFID they definitely should have gotten a binge eating ARFID suffer as the one girl said you ether binge eating or you don’t eat . For me I binge I ate a lot of my safe foods which is why I’m overweight sense really you lot of the time will be ether end of the spectrum
This is me. We actually discovered my ARFID once I was in treatment for my binge eating. I have a lot of self imposed rules over food and always considered myself very picky, but it's so much more than that. I binge my safe foods (carbs that are salty/sweet). We also did the supertaster test (the radio DJ and teen boy did that in the video) and that tiny piece of paper was repulsive when I tried it. Being a supertaster definitely adds an additional layer to my eating problems.
I have autism and due to my autism I have very sensitive taste and I hate certain textures so food is a big issue with me. But I love to try new foods even tho it causes me anxiety I fight through it and try and eat new foods often..
My little niece has ARFID since she was born. She only eats white rice or white pasta. Now she is 10 and JUST added chicken nuggets :( Her parents give her supplements and sees a doctor always. I wonder how is she gonna grow later in life
I have ARFID too, as long as she takes the supplements she will be ok. Healthwise, might not be optimal but managable. Just don't make everything about food you wouldn't like it if everything revolved about something that makes you terrified either.
My 12yo is ARFID. It’s heartbreaking to watch my child struggle so much. He spent 6weeks in a PHP 18 months ago and we have regressed so much since. Finding support in our area has been an ongoing issue.
For me I always think that my food is poisoned and I’m always scared to eat something that is the last of it or I have left it alone. I can’t eat anything that I don’t like or think it looks odd. I usually just tell myself that I have eaten things before and not had this happen. It’s gotten bad. I now have to clean a cup before I use it to make sure it isn’t poisoned. I am always scared that I’ll have an allergic reaction to some foods because I’ll just feel terrible after I eat them.
I was told that I have oral food aversion. There are foods that cause me to throw up. Other times, I feel like throwing up. I remember eating a salad from Panera. I couldn’t finish it without throwing up. Sometimes, eating my meals is a horrible experience.
I was given vitamins by IV in a hospital when I had a vitamin deficiency. There's no doubt in my mind that there are various preparations out there. I've seen people talk about vitamin patches even, which, while probably not as good as tablets, are probably better than nothing.
Yeah but it would solve the problem but to make sure the don’t go blind just inject them then we can make them eat some carrots regularly so they don’t have to go to the docs once a week to get what would have been an unnecessary injection
I recently went to my GP and told him I think I had an eating disorder, he pointed to me (I'm a little overweight) and he said I didn't look like I had an eating disorder.... It made me feel so small and useless and stupid
Doctors are so stupid Please go and ask to speak to a different gp There’s so many eating disorders that they forget that just because you appear a certain way doesn’t mean you do not have one My eating disorder clinic had to learn about binge eating disorder and osfed because they didn’t understand I needed help because and I quote them on the “ too overweight to be considered anorexic. Or bulimic I had osfed do my weight would never drop like it did before with anorexia That didn’t mean I wasn’t drowning in a sea of problems I had no coping skills to deal with Btw I was 7 stone when they said I was overweight they meant not I was actually overweight but that my bmi wasn’t in the red And that’s all they base their original referrals on I’m deficient in vitamin d and folic acid because of my food restrictions but because sometime I also throw up or simple binge eat they kept telling me I was fine and it was just a blip The whole time I was struggling so much to understand my illness because nobody would help me that I tried to end my like 22 times in one year They finally listened I’m still in a waiting list Had to have trauma therapy first lol
Need elimination diet and elimination environment. While I can't identify everything, I am intolerant/allergic to both food items and environment, I have worked out some environment intolerance/allergies but not the exact chemicals, laundry powder and a deodorant and perfume concoction make me sick. Currently living on balcony to reduce exposure to whatever, have good days and bad , working on getting better. The medical establishment here in Queensland Australia doesn't accept that what I have observed about myself is real and I am just insane. They have basically said as much.
My picky eater kids’ pediatrician told me to just feed my kids what they DO like just so they’d not starve. Idk if that helps bc it prevented them from trying to eat what they didn’t like or have never tasted.
I absolutely disagree with your pediatrician! Kids will NOT allow themselves to starve ffs! But they WILL learn how to manipulate you into giving them only junk food if you follow the idiot doctor's advice!
@@unicorn-glasses mainly its behavoural , pushing the boundaries, not an illness when kids are very small. Some can develop a fear of food if they've been born prematurely and have had vomiting issues as a baby, some if they've choked ( nurse and Midwife) it's still not the correct thing to let them become restricted and malnourished in their diet, This doctor is a lazy fool. And , if Amber is American, as her spelling of Paediatrician suggests, he's being paid good money to be both and give appalling advice!!!
@@lovingmayberry307 Oh, really? Then, why is the mortality rate higher for anorexics than any other mental illness? They starve themselves to the point that their organs fail.
This isn't talked about enough. My daughter has had this since a toddler. She is now 17 and I have been fighting for help that whole time. Only to be told not to worry she is just fussy. 😡
I developed this at around 6/7 from what my family says. The doctors told them to feed me anyways because “if I’m hungry, I’ll eat” and that’s how I’d end up doing 3 days without eating. It messed up my hunger cues horribly. I’m 25 now and there is still quite a lot I absolutely will not eat. But I’m so much better after therapy.
Food represents the taking in of the world around us. ARFID is so much more than just aversion to certain foods. It is still often treated on a superficial level.
All the best to people who go through this! I Hope you all can the help you need and order in a Restaurant how you please, and fill the plates with everything our bodies need! ❤❤❤
Have a dr do an upper endoscopy (it’s pleasant you sleep through it) so they can check your esophagus for any problem. If not it might honestly be stress/worry/anxiety or fear.
My daughter was just like this until thankfully at the age of 14 something clicked and suddenly she wanted to try literally everything! It’s fascinating that the boy in the first part of the video still went through a normal teenage growth spurt and got quite tall even, with normal looking bone development and no apparent rickets or anything. When all of the girls in my daughter’s seventh grade class started getting taller and towering over my daughter who was still under 5’! I was very worried it had something to do with her previous diet. So I’m relieved that likely isn’t the case. She gradually grew a bit more over the next few years and is around 5’1 which is only a couple inches shorter than myself so it’s probably genetics. At least she’d always take the gummy vitamins and I’d resort to mixing meal replacement shake powder with ice cream so she’d have something at least before school or add an extra egg to pancake mix. There’s some tricks parents of kids like this usually figure out. I do know it can be SO extreme and even the slightest change they’ll notice somehow and reject! I wonder if in extreme cases, maybe they should be given injections by a doctor like some people who don’t absorb B12 any other way for example? It’s frustrating when people say “just give them something healthy and when they’re hungry enough they’ll eat it.” No, these extreme kids would rather starve and literally can. You have to find ways to sneak more into whatever they will eat and that can be quite the challenge too. Doctors need to take it more seriously as well! This video makes a great case for this!
All the arfid safe foods seem to be highly processed foods like chicken nuggets and chips. So what would’ve happened if kids were never offered these foods? What if they only knew of whole foods like fruits and veggies and home cooked proteins? Several hundred years ago, processed foods weren’t even invented.
Well think of it like this, it's safe because it's consistent, meat is consistent if you have the same cut, same muscles same texture. Some people only like the firm grapes, they refuse to eat the squishy ones because it's gross. Now think of bread and wheat (a staple of human civilization) a bread loaf from the same general size of dough cooked the same way? That's consistent. Naan is flat cooked dough and is consistent and is OLD. Do you like green bananas or do you wait for them to yellow, is brown too far?
I'd imagine the disorder still persists regardless of whether processed food existed or not. There are ARFID individuals who DON'T eat any highly processed foods at all, and do eat veggies but still fail to meet their nutritional quota, and still have the same anxiety around new foods despite seeming to eat "healthy". To answer your question based on an educated guess, if we never offered kids these processed foods, if they were born with the disorder they'd most likely eat only a small range of non-processed safe foods, which is still restrictive and it's still a problem.
I was never forced to eat anything i didnt want to, and now i eat just about anything. Olives and goat cheese are the only foods in the normal realm that i do not like. Granted, my childhood pickyness was run of the mill. Nothing like this.
Autistic children who have sensory issues and RSD, these techniques aren't suitable, liquid meals from the pharmacy is needed to get the nutrients in and then treatment for the neurodiversitet so they can handle the sensory overload and RSD better. The missed link between eating disorders and neurodiversitet is luckily being more and more obvious, and that is the reason why traditional eating disorder treatment doesn't work, because it doesn't work for neurodivergente people, because the opposite is needed to help the Eating disorders in neurodivergente people.
I did but I never ate ever ! I would sneak food I liked and hide it in my room so I didn't starve and my parents only started to realize what they were doing when I was 17 ! Now I'm adult that suffers major Arfid ,that can't even eat in public , I can't eat lunch at work , I have to be alone to eat or I feel like I'm being judged and I'm still grateful for what I have because I know even I don't eat much , it's more than others could ask for
I rather starve myself for whole day than eating food that i cant handle. That's what the disorder about, you cant even chew your uncomfort food without feeling like you're going to throw up
I used to hate how long it could take to eat certain types of food like boiled chicken or steak. Since then I have become vegetarian (obviously now I am because of moral reasons too) but I feel like that part contributed to me disliking meat. I also hate warm corn, I know it’s weird but it just doesn’t taste right 😂
I am completely dumbfounded and in awe over the lack of grit parents have towards their children. Their lives are at stake and they just give in to the point of blindness and losing teeth? Why didn't they take care of it sooner?
Not everyone has access to information. If your child isn't underweight or overweight, you can't physically see vitamin deficiencies. It's something that doesn't always click as a problem until it becomes able to be physically seen. When the boy had vision problems, the mother took him in for an exam. That's what most people do.
Yes. They would starve to death but due to the amount of childhood illnesses no one would notice. There have been and are a few medical studies of eating disorders in developing countries over the decades. The disorders found in developed countries are there if they are studied.
I agree with @aethylwulfeiii6502 . I have ARFID and ive said more times than i can count that i would literally eat dirt or starve before considering something i dont like. Weekend sleep overs as a child were a rough because id go 2 days without eating anything, or however long i was there.
Maybe Wilhelm Busch Soup casper wasn't only an early Observation of Eds like Anorexia but also this...just it was written way before the times Professional could Care about the minds shennanigans.😮😢
That kid looked like death before, bags under his eyes and gray skin. Now after eating some whole foods, he looks so much better with some color to his skin.
Okay I don't think you can go blind just for not eating vegetables you have to be extremely malnourished if you ate everything else but vegetables you would still be perfectly healthy I know many people
Parents that mollycoddle their children though. You have to be firm when they are young. Children need to understand the importance of food nutrition for maintaining mental and physical health. That boy that was blind could have been avoided if the parents had taught him differently
I mean, my father would either force me to eat or just not let me eat at all when I was "picky", and the only thing that did for me was make me go dangerously underweight and make my ED worse. i still can't eat most foods, especially meat and veggies.
Its not about mollycoddling. My son has been diagnosed with ARFID and it was such a relief. At birth he was tube fed. He struggled with feeds. Struggled with his first solids and it continued. Drs, health visitors all said he's fine. For three years he saw dietitians and we tried everything they suggested, in the mean time hie grew taller but his weight became dangerously low. He is skeletal. He has autism too. Hes not able to feel hungry. He always feels full and struggles with textures, smells etc.. Imagine if you were offered a plate of eyeballs, jellied eels, dried crickets, sheeps brains and dog vomit. And then were told you HAVE to eat it. That is what it feels like for a person with ARFID. 🙂
@@debrachapman60 Sorry to hear this about your Son, it must be very worrying and stressful for you all. Never heard of this condition and what I said could hardly apply to your Dear Son. I m not a Mother unfortunately so do not have direct experience, but I do feel for you and your family. God bless you all ❤
@@princebuster93 no worries. There are parents that will give in and give their children what they want just for a quiet life but ARFID is very different. The boy that lost his sight is an extreme case of malnutrition. The mother asked for help so many times but was brushed off. Unfortunately this is all too common.
Before there was plenty of available food through mass production, I doubt this problem existed. Is it a first-world problem? I compare it to starvation via poverty -- and primal instinct to thrive. Just my opinion; I am no expert.
I can see why you’d think this but it’s been recorded for centuries. People used to be paraded round like freaks if they had an eating disorder rather than it being treated. It also happens often in 3rd world countries where there is poverty and lack of access to food, but it regularly goes unnoticed due to the amount of unintentional starving people around the intentionally starving/picky eating ones.
As an African person I can assure you that there are people with this disorder. They're pretty rare as the disorder itself is rare. Also, as another user said, Africa has a huge problem with poverty, but this doesn't mean that everybody there is starving.
I had my kids on a no grains, carbs, sugar, etc. total organic diet for health reasons. I get to choose what they eat. Same with how I was raised. Only they have it way better!
It's acute anxiety. Anxiety manifests in many different ways. Anxiety also creates revenue streams for "therapists".; What kids really need is strong parents that don't cater to nonsense.
Yep you are right parents can help make the issues worse. Peer pressure when they are young, so 2-5, through nurseries and other childcare without their parents helps a lot.
Sometimes yes, but often no. I'm from a third world country and have ARFID. I developed it after trauma from GI issues, it's absolutely possible to have an eating disorder and be poor.
I mean parents can help influence it but even though my dad would make me sit for hours in front of food and I'd rather starve and die then touch shrimp or any other meat. it's always existed, we just haven't been able to diagnose it, or had the ability to help treat it. especially since it's comorbid with autism
No it will not as you can clearly see letting them eat what they want with out forcing heathy food lead to unhealthy relationship to food…..did you comment before watching?
So you would allow your child to starve to death? Some of these kids will throw up every time they eat anything other than the few foods they can "handle." They can't control it. They don't choose it. I'm not saying that it's all of them. But it sounds like you'd just assume that your child is manipulating you no matter what, and if they were indeed that sort, they'd end up dead. Mental illnesses and eating disorders are no joke.
My kid with ARFID doesn't get away with manipulation either. So she won't eat for 3 days and you'll drive to the hospital at some point. Her younger brother is already taller than she is and they're 4 and 6 just because she doesn't eat the stuff we put before her. Oh and her problems started at baby already.
@@katlincleary1988 deal with this and actually dont like a lot of prossessed things, its not so much about what is eaten and more why they wont/cant eat. (A lot of textures feel like im swallowing needles to me and my nerves and brain interpret them as pain.)
Amen. The quality of parents has been on the DECLINE. Humans evolved to live in tribes not marriages! Our incorrectly structured families are the primary cause of our human dysfunction.
@@arianarock8564 tell me how does a toddler come to know about fries and nuggets?? Why are these problems in developed countries only?? Parents are enablers of these behaviours. In developing countries kids are only concerned about getting their next meal. They don't have the luxury to choose what they would or would not have for dinner
@@jeenadeep Many kids in third world countries with ARFID live off bread or white rice or whatever their safe food is. It has nothing to do with priveledge or money
They did that to me. I went to the hospital. Because I would rather starve then eat. My parents checked me into a clinic were I got exposures for my ARFID.
This isn't just picky eating. Lots of people have a history of food trauma such as choking/being strangled, or sensory processing disorder, chronic GI issues like chronic nausea/vomiting or abdominal pain, they can have ocd, or anxiety, or even a history of abuse. People need to stop saying "just make them eat it" and figure out WHY this developed in the first place. Therapy is essential.
This! I have sensory issues, trauma and gi issues
thank you for saying this. my arfid started because of severe fear of vomiting and sickness, not because i was a picky eater.
ARFID is also common in people on the autism spectrum.
I Absolutely 💯 % agree with you as I've Suffered with Anorexia with binge purge subtype for the past 34 years now and I'm currently 49 years old and I'm So Lucky that I've managed to have four grown up Sons Xx
Choking phobia here - didn’t eat anything solid for 3 years. Just chocolate and cream cheese as I could melt it into a liquid in my mouth. Ended up in eating disorder unit at 6 stone (I’m 5ft 8) diagnosed as anorexic ?!
Wow some people are judgemental and close-minded. I can't say I'm surprised. I'm 28 years old, and was diagnosed with ARFID only four months ago but I have suffered for over two years now. I was not a "picky" eater, I was actually a huge foodie who would try anything. One day I woke up, and I couldn't eat nor drink. My body just couldn't. I want to make this loud and clear for those in the back: THERE IS NO CHOOSING. You do not CHOOSE to have this illness, nor how you will react to a food. Being judgemental, calling names or refusing to believe in someone with this diagnosis will only worsen it.
I have a very positive attitude and that's the only thing that keeps me going. I keep telling myself that I have beaten so many things, I can find a way around this, too. I will find a way or die trying. But it's extremely difficult. I lost half my body weight, and am now on the path to being underweight. I sit down and I stare at my plate, and I try everything I can think of - sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't.
I am hopeful about research being done about this illness. Like another comment mentioned, it is usually associated with autism - it doesn't mean you are autistic, though. In my case, it comes from another very typical comorbidity which is OCD. There are a lot of similarities, and learning to differentiate is key to your treament. I also have anxiety and depression, but OCD is the worst of them all. Again, this is a brain illness. I never chose this, I want it to go away, and I hate it but I have no option other than accepting it.
I believe through science and research, we will find more about this. In my case, I can relate ARFID triggering to a series of very traumatic events that happened at once and I couldn't cope with, so I shut down and ignored the feelings until they came out as this ED. Not having energy, social outings, the Holidays - all of these things are a nightmare for someone with ARFID. Imagine having a very strong fear of spiders, a very common phobia. A fear so bad that it can trigger a panic attack.
I would never downplay any phobia and their struggle, but now imagine the phobia is of food. You can, to a certain extent, avoid spiders and find ways to reduce the chances of ever seeing one. You can't stop eating, or you will die. Someone who has ARFID has to face, every day, a phobia that goes beyond our understanding and that appeared out of nowhere. You have no idea how difficult it is, to wonder if you're on your path to death, to ask yourself why is your brain trying to kill you.
So I suggest you practice some empathy. ARFID is an ED, and a very difficult illness. It affects every aspect of your life, because food is a basic need and tied to family, friends, activities, etc. For the people struggling with ARFID, do not feel invalidated by any of the people here. Do not stop trying, even on the weeks when it feels like it's impossible. Do not blame yourself. Be kind to yourself because you will need your own help, too, to get through this. I send you love, understanding and a tight hug.
Cheers.
This happened to many people after Covid. It is known as parosmia or anosmia depending on how severe the damage to olfactory nerve it is. Covid caused ARFID is quite common now.
@@konchokkadro7436wow really? I didn't know that
A little over halfway through and I'm frustrated that at no point have they mentioned autism. They've even kind of gone out of their way to avoid it. Those two people helping the children in the room, with their rainbow charts and their bouncy ball to help calm someone with sensory sensitivities from 'being too overwhelmed?' They are saying 'many of the people we help are autistic,' without saying it. (Edit: autism is never mentioned at all.)
ARFID is a frequent companion to autism, and all of the difficulties the people displaying those traits in this video have, directly line up with sensory needs/avoidances linked to autism. Only being able to tolerate foods at certain temperatures. Having heightened awareness of smells. Prefering standardized, mass-produced food with predictable outcomes, over homemade, variable options. Being adverse to certain textures. Not being able to deal with certain intense tastes, or near-tasteless things (both extremes of the flavor scale.). Please, if you relate to this video... learn about autism. Find a community of autistics to guide you through your journey as you learn how to accommodate yourself, and find ways to live a much fuller and richer life, even if it looks absolutely nothing like the lives of non-autistics. The people with ARFID in this video could have potentially had more success if the specificities of their aversions and preferences were identified, and real thoughtfulness was put into adapting their diets within that framework so that it fit their nutritional needs and did not risk inducing a meltdown.
YES! Thinking the exact same thing especially considering it cooccurs with ASD between 12-33% of the time (Harris et al., 2019).
probably because its well known in autism. arfid for neurotypical people is highly underdiagnosed
Jup! My daughter has autism, ADHD and ARFID, and the doctor who's helping her says almost all of her clients have autism. I have autism myself and was a very fussy eater myself when I was young. What my daughter has and the fussy eater I was are kinda different though. For me the problem was mostly the way how my parents were giving the food (lots of stuff mashed together, lots of different structures, a lot of flavours I didn't like), while my daughter just cannot bring herself to put anything in her mouth because it's a phobia for her. I'm not at the end of the vid yet though, still hoping they'll mention something about a correlation.
@@H4CK41D But common knowledge about autism is basically nonexistent outside of the autistic community. Sure, we can spot one of our own once we, ourselves, know... but imagine not knowing anything about autism, not knowing YOU are autistic, and coming across this video that just so happens to describe quite a lot of your food struggles. And not once, beyond the comments section on that video on UA-cam, is it ever mentioned that ARFID and autism are frequently comorbid. It's worth mentioning, even just quickly in one line, to give the people looking for clues about themselves or someone they know, a little thread to follow.
BRO STOP SCARING ME I HAVE ARFID AND I HAVE SIMILAR SYMPTOMS TO AUTISM BROO
Some people In these comments are obscure. “Starve until they eat” or blaming it on the parents smh. Honestly you can’t possibly understand it unless you have it.
This. No empathy whatsoever for what others are going through. They don't understand some people's brains work differently 😒
i have arfid and i have starved when there were no safe foods offered or provided.
I mean we’re trying to help, and not have someone end up like him having strokes and being blind…. But ok
@@christinajones6500 ur not trying to help ur lil dig at the end of ur sentence proves it + u are a heffer
@@christinajones6500 Yeah but starving just doesn't work, as someone who has it. I'd really rather starvs to death than eat what I can't.
You need to understand that you can't just force everything, learn empathy.
I've worked with kids with this disorder. The therapists at the mental health facility I worked at had never heard of ARFID. I had to send them articles about it. I was like "Hey, this kid is getting so upset that they are self-harming at the idea of eating anything other than grilled cheese. It's not just picky eating!" I always did my best to advocate for all the kids I worked with and would do my best to try to understand where they were coming from, even when the rest of the staff were complaining about a kid "just being difficult". It broke my heart to see kids who were clearly suffering with something that other people just didn't understand.
As someone with arfid exposure therapy sounds my worst nightmare. Just being near a food the smell of it can make me nauseous.
I have Crohn’s disease. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was around 29. My entire childhood my mom would constantly nag at me when I would try something and then vomit or have horrible stomach pain. She would say I was being “dramatic” or I was “faking it” or “just had a touchy stomach.” My parents are first Gen Italian. Food is a big deal. And ya, some of the foods would taste good but after being forced to eat it once then getting sick, I never wanted it again. I have been both under and overweight at different points in my life. When I was diagnosed with Crohn’s, my mom felt HORRIBLE. I keep a food journal now to track my trigger foods and I am careful. It’s a constant medical and physical battle. But when I finally saw a nutritionist and GI doc and a therapist, I finally realized what was going on and it has helped me so much. Diet is personal and can be so isolating. But there is hope. I never thought I would be able to get past my issues. I’ll always have Crohn’s. But I’ve stopped looking at food as the enemy and that has helped. ❤
Some foods are enemies to us, unfortunately. I have restricted more than 50 foods in order to survive, amlnd is getting harder and harder. Life is a struggle. Wishing u best of luck. ❤️
I know a couple of adults with this disorder. They want to eat food that everyone else enjoy, but they can't. In one case, a friend's daughter would only eat white bread, carrots & fish sticks. Her other kids eat everything. She's expanded her food choices, but they're still very limited. I know that when my son was young, I did not expose him to 'kid food' (after he could eat solids). He ate what we ate. It usually takes kids 7 tries of a food to accept it. I was blessed to have a good eater. He is now an adult & very adventurous eater.
This is what people don’t get. I would LOVE to just eat a chicken breast like a normal person lol. Protein not from a shake? YES PLEASE. But i would literally gag to the point of vomiting. I want to be normal.
i feel for them because i have autism and i relate alot. luckily i am nowhere near a picky eater as them but i can still be quite picky depending on the foods texture or smell and it can be annoying.
You aren't picky. It is a sensory issue. Lots of people have it with certain foods or groups of foods, and they are neurotypical.
Same here!
Thanks for this! Before this documentary I thought that that is just my personal problem.
I live with this for 30 years and keep constantly hearing that I'm just capricious person.
I eat almost no fruits and vegetables for all my life. Even if somebody mix all the product that I accept there is a 1% probability I'll eat it.
I even cannot touch most of fruit it just makes me sick.
Luckily I would name me a pretty healthy guy so far which kind of surprises everyone around me. However of course it brings a lot of discomfort to everyday life especially when I have to eat somewhere outside my home.
I wish more medical people know about ARFID and how to treat it.
Thanks again!
I learnt about ARFID only a couple of years ago and I actually had it all my life. I am so happy that I am not just a crazy person but that there actually is a diagnose and we are not alone in this. Lets hope awareness will grow in future and with this coming better knowledge in the medical and therapeutical field.
So many mental illnesses are anxiety based. I wonder if, sometimes, treatment should focus not on the food, but on their anxiety in general…?
We do focus on the underlying anxiety, control issues, etc. In many cases Refeeding is a part of the solution, not all of the solution.
Human beings evolved to live in tribes, not marriages. Our incorrectly structured families are the primary cause of our human dysfunction (anxiety).
My mom was told to let me eat what I wanted until I got tired or bored so I wouldn’t starve. Now I have gastroparesis and I want to eat all kinds of food, and can’t, so I am stuck with the same kind of food that hasn’t make me sick. But my mom did forced me to eat until the pediatrician told her what I wrote above.
I have lactose intolerance. From age 7 I would have issues with my underwear, stomach pains and throwing up after eating certain things. Luckily while I didn't have much choice over my breakfast I mostly ate the dinners I wanted.
I have gastroparesis too. Before I got diagnosed, I would mostly just eat breakfast cereal and a few other things. Everything else made my stomach hurt so bad. My mom thought I was anorexic. After some treatments and surgeries, I am doing much better now. I can almost eat like normal again. I am able to maintain a healthy weight again.
I started throwing up in my mid fifties. Today I threw up like a paper grocery bag amount. Then I ate saltines with peanut butter. I feel a lot better. I feel bad for people who have my problem.
i wonder how many children and adults will go undiagnosed because their few safe foods are relatively healthy. seems like it’s easier to notice this variety issue when kids rely on unhealthy sugary foods.
I feel like all the things WE just find names for, Always have been here before,latest since humans learned to Walk but either people got physically punished through IT or died due to the then unaccessible and unknown sideeffects.😢
If people can care about psyche and mind we live in a rather good time. Sadly those good times seem limited and hardly reach a century so Humanity is Always going on From Level 1.
As someone who is suffering from ARFID they definitely should have gotten a binge eating ARFID suffer as the one girl said you ether binge eating or you don’t eat . For me I binge I ate a lot of my safe foods which is why I’m overweight sense really you lot of the time will be ether end of the spectrum
This is me. We actually discovered my ARFID once I was in treatment for my binge eating. I have a lot of self imposed rules over food and always considered myself very picky, but it's so much more than that. I binge my safe foods (carbs that are salty/sweet). We also did the supertaster test (the radio DJ and teen boy did that in the video) and that tiny piece of paper was repulsive when I tried it. Being a supertaster definitely adds an additional layer to my eating problems.
I have autism and due to my autism I have very sensitive taste and I hate certain textures so food is a big issue with me. But I love to try new foods even tho it causes me anxiety I fight through it and try and eat new foods often..
My little niece has ARFID since she was born. She only eats white rice or white pasta. Now she is 10 and JUST added chicken nuggets :(
Her parents give her supplements and sees a doctor always. I wonder how is she gonna grow later in life
speaking as someone who has been living life “beige”, never eaten meat. I am perfectly healthy, I have made it 29 years. She will be fine.
a lot of kids grow out of it eventually. its most common in younger people
Receive help. This diet will shorten her life and it will also affect her social life as an adult as a lot of social things always involve food.
I have ARFID too, as long as she takes the supplements she will be ok. Healthwise, might not be optimal but managable. Just don't make everything about food you wouldn't like it if everything revolved about something that makes you terrified either.
My 12yo is ARFID. It’s heartbreaking to watch my child struggle so much. He spent 6weeks in a PHP 18 months ago and we have regressed so much since. Finding support in our area has been an ongoing issue.
For me I always think that my food is poisoned and I’m always scared to eat something that is the last of it or I have left it alone. I can’t eat anything that I don’t like or think it looks odd. I usually just tell myself that I have eaten things before and not had this happen. It’s gotten bad. I now have to clean a cup before I use it to make sure it isn’t poisoned. I am always scared that I’ll have an allergic reaction to some foods because I’ll just feel terrible after I eat them.
I was told that I have oral food aversion. There are foods that cause me to throw up. Other times, I feel like throwing up. I remember eating a salad from Panera. I couldn’t finish it without throwing up. Sometimes, eating my meals is a horrible experience.
There should be injectable multivitamins. That would be easier.
I was given vitamins by IV in a hospital when I had a vitamin deficiency. There's no doubt in my mind that there are various preparations out there. I've seen people talk about vitamin patches even, which, while probably not as good as tablets, are probably better than nothing.
Yea, duh. Just inject them with the Vitamins.
Yeah but it would solve the problem but to make sure the don’t go blind just inject them then we can make them eat some carrots regularly so they don’t have to go to the docs once a week to get what would have been an unnecessary injection
i’m 14 and like 95% sure i have arfid , everytime i tell the doctor they say “you’ll grow out of it” wonder when that’s gonna happen 😂🤷🏻♀️
Try a different doctor, or maybe a counselir.
I recently went to my GP and told him I think I had an eating disorder, he pointed to me (I'm a little overweight) and he said I didn't look like I had an eating disorder.... It made me feel so small and useless and stupid
Doctors are so stupid
Please go and ask to speak to a different gp
There’s so many eating disorders that they forget that just because you appear a certain way doesn’t mean you do not have one
My eating disorder clinic had to learn about binge eating disorder and osfed because they didn’t understand I needed help because and I quote them on the “ too overweight to be considered anorexic. Or bulimic
I had osfed do my weight would never drop like it did before with anorexia
That didn’t mean I wasn’t drowning in a sea of problems I had no coping skills to deal with
Btw I was 7 stone when they said I was overweight they meant not I was actually overweight but that my bmi wasn’t in the red
And that’s all they base their original referrals on
I’m deficient in vitamin d and folic acid because of my food restrictions but because sometime I also throw up or simple binge eat they kept telling me I was fine and it was just a blip
The whole time I was struggling so much to understand my illness because nobody would help me that I tried to end my like 22 times in one year
They finally listened
I’m still in a waiting list
Had to have trauma therapy first lol
Oh my god! This is me completely, I'm 50yo now, but had this since I was 5yo!
Thank you! I now know what I have suffered from since childhood. I will take this info to my Doctor. Rock on!♡
Awe wait that's so cool that you found a diagnosis for yourself through youtube!
Need elimination diet and elimination environment. While I can't identify everything, I am intolerant/allergic to both food items and environment, I have worked out some environment intolerance/allergies but not the exact chemicals, laundry powder and a deodorant and perfume concoction make me sick. Currently living on balcony to reduce exposure to whatever, have good days and bad , working on getting better. The medical establishment here in Queensland Australia doesn't accept that what I have observed about myself is real and I am just insane. They have basically said as much.
Good luck to you. Never give up!
Tropical climate and vegetation are not the healthiest environment. Try Tasmania, Victoria or NZ.
My picky eater kids’ pediatrician told me to just feed my kids what they DO like just so they’d not starve. Idk if that helps bc it prevented them from trying to eat what they didn’t like or have never tasted.
I absolutely disagree with your pediatrician! Kids will NOT allow themselves to starve ffs! But they WILL learn how to manipulate you into giving them only junk food if you follow the idiot doctor's advice!
@@lovingmayberry307 my mom used to say 'I am not a restaurant. You eat what I make'. She was right
@@lovingmayberry307 depending on the illness, some of them will "allow themselves" to starve. That's why it's called an illness.
@@unicorn-glasses mainly its behavoural , pushing the boundaries, not an illness when kids are very small. Some can develop a fear of food if they've been born prematurely and have had vomiting issues as a baby, some if they've choked ( nurse and Midwife) it's still not the correct thing to let them become restricted and malnourished in their diet, This doctor is a lazy fool. And , if Amber is American, as her spelling of Paediatrician suggests, he's being paid good money to be both and give appalling advice!!!
@@lovingmayberry307 Oh, really? Then, why is the mortality rate higher for anorexics than any other mental illness? They starve themselves to the point that their organs fail.
These kids are so brave and intelligent! Rebecca was such a bad@$$ for taking charge of her health and believing in herself. Such an insightful docu!
This isn't talked about enough. My daughter has had this since a toddler. She is now 17 and I have been fighting for help that whole time. Only to be told not to worry she is just fussy. 😡
I developed this at around 6/7 from what my family says. The doctors told them to feed me anyways because “if I’m hungry, I’ll eat” and that’s how I’d end up doing 3 days without eating. It messed up my hunger cues horribly. I’m 25 now and there is still quite a lot I absolutely will not eat. But I’m so much better after therapy.
So interesting I did not know of Arfid thank you
Food represents the taking in of the world around us. ARFID is so much more than just aversion to certain foods. It is still often treated on a superficial level.
This isn't new. I'm old and I have had it all my life. I'm healthy too.
I’m not healthy . Low iron low vitamin d , crumbling spine . I won’t eat anything green or meat
It’s new as an official eating disorder. Sure some people have had it all of their life but it was never actually identified until 2013
All the best to people who go through this! I Hope you all can the help you need and order in a Restaurant how you please, and fill the plates with everything our bodies need! ❤❤❤
I have a fear of choking and I constantly feel like I’m choking when eating if anyone could help lmk
Have a dr do an upper endoscopy (it’s pleasant you sleep through it) so they can check your esophagus for any problem. If not it might honestly be stress/worry/anxiety or fear.
My daughter was just like this until thankfully at the age of 14 something clicked and suddenly she wanted to try literally everything! It’s fascinating that the boy in the first part of the video still went through a normal teenage growth spurt and got quite tall even, with normal looking bone development and no apparent rickets or anything. When all of the girls in my daughter’s seventh grade class started getting taller and towering over my daughter who was still under 5’! I was very worried it had something to do with her previous diet. So I’m relieved that likely isn’t the case. She gradually grew a bit more over the next few years and is around 5’1 which is only a couple inches shorter than myself so it’s probably genetics. At least she’d always take the gummy vitamins and I’d resort to mixing meal replacement shake powder with ice cream so she’d have something at least before school or add an extra egg to pancake mix. There’s some tricks parents of kids like this usually figure out. I do know it can be SO extreme and even the slightest change they’ll notice somehow and reject! I wonder if in extreme cases, maybe they should be given injections by a doctor like some people who don’t absorb B12 any other way for example? It’s frustrating when people say “just give them something healthy and when they’re hungry enough they’ll eat it.” No, these extreme kids would rather starve and literally can. You have to find ways to sneak more into whatever they will eat and that can be quite the challenge too. Doctors need to take it more seriously as well! This video makes a great case for this!
I just try to swallow my food whole so it doesn’t touch my tongue while looking away from my food
All the arfid safe foods seem to be highly processed foods like chicken nuggets and chips. So what would’ve happened if kids were never offered these foods? What if they only knew of whole foods like fruits and veggies and home cooked proteins? Several hundred years ago, processed foods weren’t even invented.
Well think of it like this, it's safe because it's consistent, meat is consistent if you have the same cut, same muscles same texture. Some people only like the firm grapes, they refuse to eat the squishy ones because it's gross.
Now think of bread and wheat (a staple of human civilization) a bread loaf from the same general size of dough cooked the same way? That's consistent. Naan is flat cooked dough and is consistent and is OLD.
Do you like green bananas or do you wait for them to yellow, is brown too far?
@@haileytavares7143 please don’t try to compare this to green bananas 🙄 green bananas are not ripe to eat.
I'd imagine the disorder still persists regardless of whether processed food existed or not. There are ARFID individuals who DON'T eat any highly processed foods at all, and do eat veggies but still fail to meet their nutritional quota, and still have the same anxiety around new foods despite seeming to eat "healthy".
To answer your question based on an educated guess, if we never offered kids these processed foods, if they were born with the disorder they'd most likely eat only a small range of non-processed safe foods, which is still restrictive and it's still a problem.
I was never forced to eat anything i didnt want to, and now i eat just about anything. Olives and goat cheese are the only foods in the normal realm that i do not like.
Granted, my childhood pickyness was run of the mill. Nothing like this.
the amount of mis information and bad contextualisation and harmful rhetoric surrounding not only ARFID but other ED's is appalling in all honesty
Autistic children who have sensory issues and RSD, these techniques aren't suitable, liquid meals from the pharmacy is needed to get the nutrients in and then treatment for the neurodiversitet so they can handle the sensory overload and RSD better. The missed link between eating disorders and neurodiversitet is luckily being more and more obvious, and that is the reason why traditional eating disorder treatment doesn't work, because it doesn't work for neurodivergente people, because the opposite is needed to help the Eating disorders in neurodivergente people.
THE NUTELLA THOOOOOOO, i eat so much of it. I can’t even 😂 yessss girl
Did anyone prescribe nutritional shakes like Ensure ? I’ve heard that in some cases the person needs to be fed by tube .
Its good that they put boys in this docu because most of the time its just girls in ed docu's but boys also could have an ed
Who else grew up in a household of “ well if you don’t want it, you’re not gonna eat” be thankful for what was made for dinner
I did but I never ate ever ! I would sneak food I liked and hide it in my room so I didn't starve and my parents only started to realize what they were doing when I was 17 ! Now I'm adult that suffers major Arfid ,that can't even eat in public , I can't eat lunch at work , I have to be alone to eat or I feel like I'm being judged and I'm still grateful for what I have because I know even I don't eat much , it's more than others could ask for
I rather starve myself for whole day than eating food that i cant handle. That's what the disorder about, you cant even chew your uncomfort food without feeling like you're going to throw up
"be thankful for what was made for dinner" it's difficult when you think it's going to kill you
This is so sad. 😢
And kinda pathetic!
A child only wants what he or she sees! If you never have chicken nuggets in your house, how are the kids gonna want it?
I used to hate how long it could take to eat certain types of food like boiled chicken or steak. Since then I have become vegetarian (obviously now I am because of moral reasons too) but I feel like that part contributed to me disliking meat. I also hate warm corn, I know it’s weird but it just doesn’t taste right 😂
This is called having a taste
I am completely dumbfounded and in awe over the lack of grit parents have towards their children. Their lives are at stake and they just give in to the point of blindness and losing teeth? Why didn't they take care of it sooner?
Not everyone has access to information. If your child isn't underweight or overweight, you can't physically see vitamin deficiencies. It's something that doesn't always click as a problem until it becomes able to be physically seen. When the boy had vision problems, the mother took him in for an exam. That's what most people do.
This hurt cuz i know i have Afrid and I'm not close to finishing this video. From the 80s till today smh
Would this disorder have been a thing 200 or 300 years ago when you eat or starve?
Yes.
They would starve to death but due to the amount of childhood illnesses no one would notice.
There have been and are a few medical studies of eating disorders in developing countries over the decades. The disorders found in developed countries are there if they are studied.
It likely manifest itself as pica.
I agree with @aethylwulfeiii6502 . I have ARFID and ive said more times than i can count that i would literally eat dirt or starve before considering something i dont like. Weekend sleep overs as a child were a rough because id go 2 days without eating anything, or however long i was there.
Maybe Wilhelm Busch Soup casper wasn't only an early Observation of Eds like Anorexia but also this...just it was written way before the times Professional could Care about the minds shennanigans.😮😢
thanks for this
That kid looked like death before, bags under his eyes and gray skin. Now after eating some whole foods, he looks so much better with some color to his skin.
Okay I don't think you can go blind just for not eating vegetables you have to be extremely malnourished if you ate everything else but vegetables you would still be perfectly healthy I know many people
Severe vitamin a deficiency. Look it up.
Jase *is* a super-taster. Why didn't they elaborate on that?!?!
He is legally blind, sits in front of this screen and has no glasses?
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all jake needed was meat not peas or veggies
Maybe go for an octopus as they have tons of vitamins in them.
@aethylwulfeiii6502 how are you going to get someone with arfid to eat something like that?
@@louib716 fr these ppl r so slow
Parents that mollycoddle their children though. You have to be firm when they are young. Children need to understand the importance of food nutrition for maintaining mental and physical health. That boy that was blind could have been avoided if the parents had taught him differently
I mean, my father would either force me to eat or just not let me eat at all when I was "picky", and the only thing that did for me was make me go dangerously underweight and make my ED worse. i still can't eat most foods, especially meat and veggies.
Its not about mollycoddling. My son has been diagnosed with ARFID and it was such a relief.
At birth he was tube fed. He struggled with feeds. Struggled with his first solids and it continued.
Drs, health visitors all said he's fine. For three years he saw dietitians and we tried everything they suggested, in the mean time hie grew taller but his weight became dangerously low. He is skeletal. He has autism too.
Hes not able to feel hungry. He always feels full and struggles with textures, smells etc..
Imagine if you were offered a plate of eyeballs, jellied eels, dried crickets, sheeps brains and dog vomit. And then were told you HAVE to eat it.
That is what it feels like for a person with ARFID.
🙂
@@debrachapman60 Sorry to hear this about your Son, it must be very worrying and stressful for you all. Never heard of this condition and what I said could hardly apply to your Dear Son. I m not a Mother unfortunately so do not have direct experience, but I do feel for you and your family. God bless you all ❤
@@princebuster93 no worries. There are parents that will give in and give their children what they want just for a quiet life but ARFID is very different.
The boy that lost his sight is an extreme case of malnutrition. The mother asked for help so many times but was brushed off. Unfortunately this is all too common.
I would just throw up and in many instances, I would choke because force-feeding is dangerous.
Before there was plenty of available food through mass production, I doubt this problem existed. Is it a first-world problem? I compare it to starvation via poverty -- and primal instinct to thrive. Just my opinion; I am no expert.
Yeah, totally sounds like a 1st world disorder.
it still existed, especially in autistic people with arfid, but most likely just starved or died to other illness.
I can see why you’d think this but it’s been recorded for centuries. People used to be paraded round like freaks if they had an eating disorder rather than it being treated. It also happens often in 3rd world countries where there is poverty and lack of access to food, but it regularly goes unnoticed due to the amount of unintentional starving people around the intentionally starving/picky eating ones.
First world problem. This isn’t an issue in Africa and starving countries…
As an African person I can assure you that there are people with this disorder. They're pretty rare as the disorder itself is rare.
Also, as another user said, Africa has a huge problem with poverty, but this doesn't mean that everybody there is starving.
It definitely is, but is probably showing up more as a Pica type thing.
no one cares ab africa
Yay racism to fit your narrative. That’s cute. S
I had my kids on a no grains, carbs, sugar, etc. total organic diet for health reasons. I get to choose what they eat. Same with how I was raised. Only they have it way better!
Good it works for you but it doesnt’ work for everybody✌️
@lucy the vegetables, fruit provide carbs. According to developmental paediatrician, carbs are not necessary to survival.
? The eff? Carbohydrates get a bad rap but are essential for endurance and energy. There is a huge difference between pasta and donuts.
ur a horrible parent I hope ur kids do a gypsy rose on u
Come on
Sometimes I think this seems like another fancy way to describe DISORDERED EATING “ or if you’re asleep….ANA!
It's acute anxiety. Anxiety manifests in many different ways. Anxiety also creates revenue streams for "therapists".; What kids really need is strong parents that don't cater to nonsense.
very very serious first world problem... with the parents.
🤣 exactly!
Yep you are right parents can help make the issues worse. Peer pressure when they are young, so 2-5, through nurseries and other childcare without their parents helps a lot.
Sometimes yes, but often no. I'm from a third world country and have ARFID. I developed it after trauma from GI issues, it's absolutely possible to have an eating disorder and be poor.
I mean parents can help influence it but even though my dad would make me sit for hours in front of food and I'd rather starve and die then touch shrimp or any other meat. it's always existed, we just haven't been able to diagnose it, or had the ability to help treat it. especially since it's comorbid with autism
@@Lea-ov8vqI absolutely agree. But you can't explain that to ignorant people who think that we choose to have a mental disorder for fun
It's sad that your child tells you what he will eat
Well forcing kids to eat can lead to unhealhy relationships with food.
No it will not as you can clearly see letting them eat what they want with out forcing heathy food lead to unhealthy relationship to food…..did you comment before watching?
@@tmwick10 I'd say his relationship with food IS unhealthy, don't you think? 🙄
@@tmwick10 ok well let your kids eat what they want and let me know how it goes.
@@dalhousieDream exactly 💯
Don’t laugh
I think this is pure manipulation. My child would not get away with this.
So you would allow your child to starve to death? Some of these kids will throw up every time they eat anything other than the few foods they can "handle." They can't control it. They don't choose it. I'm not saying that it's all of them. But it sounds like you'd just assume that your child is manipulating you no matter what, and if they were indeed that sort, they'd end up dead. Mental illnesses and eating disorders are no joke.
@@unicorn-glasses He's BLIND -- so maybe that method did not work, you think?
My kid with ARFID doesn't get away with manipulation either. So she won't eat for 3 days and you'll drive to the hospital at some point. Her younger brother is already taller than she is and they're 4 and 6 just because she doesn't eat the stuff we put before her. Oh and her problems started at baby already.
I feel like all these kids want is just processed junk. I'm wondering how these foods are safe and ok to eat.
@@katlincleary1988 deal with this and actually dont like a lot of prossessed things, its not so much about what is eaten and more why they wont/cant eat. (A lot of textures feel like im swallowing needles to me and my nerves and brain interpret them as pain.)
Bad parenting is all that it is.
Amen. The quality of parents has been on the DECLINE.
Humans evolved to live in tribes not marriages! Our incorrectly structured families are the primary cause of our human dysfunction.
Tell me how? I have ARFID and my parents played no role in that
@@arianarock8564 tell me how does a toddler come to know about fries and nuggets??
Why are these problems in developed countries only??
Parents are enablers of these behaviours.
In developing countries kids are only concerned about getting their next meal. They don't have the luxury to choose what they would or would not have for dinner
@@jeenadeep Many kids in third world countries with ARFID live off bread or white rice or whatever their safe food is. It has nothing to do with priveledge or money
That sounds like Freudian gobblygook.
Starve them until they are willing to eat anything.
That doesn't work.
They did that to me. I went to the hospital. Because I would rather starve then eat. My parents checked me into a clinic were I got exposures for my ARFID.
Well, they would starve. That's why it's an eating disorder, because the disorder is more powerful that their "will to survive"
Tf is wrong with you?
and that's how people end up offing themselves, moron
All MISBEHAVED children
Broski got no clue what she’s talking about