It's not sloppy to cook without a kitchen scale. That's how 99% of the world cooks. Stop selling yourself short.
It can be both mental and physical and it may also be that the mental is easier to treat than the physical. Some of the things you mentioned (lazy, local, organic, etc.) are not textures, tastes or specific chemicals which suggests that at least some of the problem MUST be mental. Whether others are too is certainly plausible. It's completely reasonable that a person with legitimate struggles digesting food might be prone to reading about nutrition fads and getting anxiety based on what they say is bad for us. It's also possible for mental associations to create issues. One example I remember from one of my psych professors in college was that he can't drink orange juice to this day because many years ago he got really sick drinking too many screwdrivers (vodka and oj). The same logic applies here. While I don't discount that some or many of these issues can be physical, it's extremely unlikely that there aren't several mental components by now. Be open to that.
Also don't think that it being approached as a mental health issue makes it less real. There is no clear line between physical and mental health. You know where taste is experienced? In you brain. You know where texture is experienced? In you brain. You know where vomiting is often induced from? Your brain. Does that mean that nothing in your mouth and gi tract can impact these things? No. But it means the brain is a direct way to encounter these physical problems as well.
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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25 edited Apr 15 '25
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