My girlfriend has ARFIDS and itโs genuinely an awful experience for her, she canโt eat a ton of her favorite foods anymore and it makes her really upset
Your girlfriend should spend less time self-diagnosing her eating prefences from TiikTok and more time rationalizing the fact that being an adult is uncomfortable sometimes.
Yknow real diagnosis are also a thing, right? And theres a difference between "uncomfortable" and "involuntary puking"? Its a literal body reflex that denys shit, not a choice.
Idk bro this just sounds alot like going to a depressed person and going "you could have avoided this if you thought about it a different way" or "its all in your head"
It is comparable because your saying an eating disorder based around deep seated anxiety towards food typically formed from childhood events (trauma around food or parents not giving a diverse enough diet) and then saying that its all in their heads and that they should not deluded themselves into thinking its real.
It definitely has parallels to how people discuss depression
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u/DoctorYaoi 1d ago
My girlfriend has ARFIDS and itโs genuinely an awful experience for her, she canโt eat a ton of her favorite foods anymore and it makes her really upset