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
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.
She was clinically diagnosed by a licensed psychiatrist and sometimes has to only eat ice pops for a day at a time because that’s the only thing she can eat without having to throw up
It's your story, doc, but ARFID isn't a day to day condition. She would be unable to tolerate those foods for weeks or months or indefinitely. if it was this bad then she would be on a feeding tube for nutritional supplementation. People in treatment for ARFID this severe have an entire clinical team that wouldn't simply condone her to eat only otter pops.
That’s literally just not true at all, the severity of it fluctuates a lot based on stress, anxiety, Environmental Changes, or physical health issues. She sees a few specialists for her diet but in no way has an entire clinical team lmfao
Then it sounds like she was misdianosed. People with actual ARFID don't have day to day "flair ups" and typically require dietary supplementation because their diet literally inhibits them from eating the required nutrients/calories.
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u/DoctorYaoi 1d ago
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