Oh no, some scientists studied a common phenomonon and gave it a big-wordy name! Next they’ll probably study the root causes and test hypotheses for treatment under scientifically rigorous conditions! Oh the horror! Why, in my day, we just whacked the kid with a wooden spoon so they’d eat their four servings of dairy and fruit juice and go get a job they don’t deserve to be paid for.
I see your point but have you ever visited fakedisordercringe on Reddit? Because that’s a result of pathologising everything.
No, I never saw that sub when I was over there, but I’d wager my comment would apply equally well to anything posted there. These kids today with their words for problems we ignored.
ARFID is a very real phenomenon that is staggeringly common, and yet we have very little information on the causes or fixes for it. Treating it like the kid is just being “picky” leads to food avoidance, binge eating, obesity, and eating disorders. “Just stop being picky” didn’t work, and was a criminal neglect of duty of care among parents and doctors.
Look - I’ve been diagnosed with BPD but the people on that sub claim to have DID and be a “system” with over 1000 personalities. Those personalities, funnily enough, are anime characters fro the latest animes they watched.
You really think they’re real?
You mean the sub where 99% of the time they’re either bullying people with real disorders or actual children. Yeah such a cool place full of normal people.
You think the 14yo claiming to be a “system” of 1000 identities is really suffering DID? Really?
People with DID can have any number of alters. Jeni Hayes had ~2500. Don’t assume something doesn’t happen just because you’ve only heard about it happening from TikTok.
Aaah yes, so that means all these SELF-diagnosed people who claim to have 2000 alters are all 100% real.
All the quirky little acts they do for the camera aren’t an act!! They really DO become their favourite anime characters!!
Some even post clips of their sob stories trying to get diagnosed and being let go by the doctor/therapist.
That’s a lot of words for ‘I’m privileged with good health and can’t empathize with people going through mental and physical illnesses’.
I don’t have AFRID, but I know people who do. Your delusional if you think it’s a choice and they can just decide to eat other things without wanting to throw up
This is this the same as telling people with depression to ‘just be happy’ or telling people with anxiety to ‘just calm down’. There is no ‘just eat the food’ with AFRID. The whole point is that they can’t.
