Safe Foods
Safe Foods My desert island food has always been bread. Except when you have ARFID it’s like you’re on desert island game restrictions at all times. In other words a strict small diet only of safe foods.
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When you hear about eating disorders, most people usually think of Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia. Where one struggles with their body image and digestion. This book is about one of the many other eating disorders you have likely never heard of: Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, or ARFID. Nowadays, being given a diagnosis implies a plethora of resources, treatments, unsolicited advice, and being able to do a deep dive on the Internet. This is true for ailments easily recognized, but what about ARFID? 16
ARFID is a new diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association - Fifth Edition (DSM5) as of 2013. ARFID has gone by many names before being medically established - feeding disorder, food neophobia, sensory food aversion, and others. It is an eating disorder where a person under-eats due to a lack of interest in food or an intense distaste for how certain foods feel, look, or smell. ARFID is characterized by extreme limitations in the Not Hungry
