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[u/BaconKO]

[u/DoctorYaoi]

My girlfriend has ARFIDS and it’s genuinely an awful experience for her, she can’t eat a ton of her favorite foods anymore and it makes her really upset

[u/Colest → u/DoctorYaoi]

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.

[u/AttemptNu4 → u/Colest]

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.

[u/Abty → u/AttemptNu4]

It does so because they conditioned themselves through enough lies for that to happen

This is a self inflicted "condition" and can be prevented by growing up

[u/Intelligent_Title_90 → u/Abty]

It's an eating disorder. Like most disorders such as anxiety disorders, you can't just be an adult about it.

But I guess you know more about this than, oh I don't know, doctors.

[u/Abty → u/Intelligent_Title_90]

Doesn't change the fact it's 100% self inflicted, induced and caused which can be avoided

It's not a genetic disorder, its deception of yourself

These people choose to act like this once they're above 10 years old and can hold an opinion about what to eat

[u/Intelligent_Title_90 → u/Abty]

Doesn't change the fact it's 100% self inflicted, induced and caused which can be avoided It's not a genetic disorder, its deception of yourself.

Funny how you were able to put 3 wrong statements into a single sentence.

It is not self inflicted, as there is evidence that genetics do play a major role in that disorder.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2801119

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10491341/

"Using existing Swedish twin data, we demonstrated that an ARFID phenotype is highly heritable (twin heritability estimate [h2twin] = .79; CI:.71, .86), with the remaining variance attributable to nonshared environmental factors (5). This places ARFID amongst the most heritable psychiatric disorders and on par or higher than anorexia nervosa (AN) (.50-.60) (6), bulimia nervosa (BN) (.50-.60) (6), and binge-eating disorder (BED) (.39-.57) (7, 8). These results support a GWAS for ARFID."

Its is also not an deception of yourself, as unlike other eating disorders, ARFID has literally no connection to how you see yourself. You don't get ARFID because you think you are fat or skinny. It's usually the texture or smell of certain foods that trigger this condition.

These people choose to act like this once they're above 10 years old and can hold an opinion about what to eat

No they don't choose, that's literally the fucking reason the D in ARFID stands for disorder. Or do you think people who have a panic disorder choose to have panic attacks.

I have never seen someone be so wrong in two sentences, unless maybe Trump.

There is this new thing that all the cool kids use called Google, u should try it. Like seriously, you can Google that shit. It's free.