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Hello, I don’t have diagnosed Arfid but I really struggle with food and I need advice. I’m back at school after two years of mental illness that restricted me from attending, it’s going mostly well but I’m on edge all day which makes it almost impossible for me to eat. I feel hunger, I get the “I need to eat” nausea, I just can’t eat. I open my lunch, I want to eat but I can’t, I feel sick and scared. I need to eat, I need to have energy for my classes so I’m really hoping someone has some recommendations for high calorie options I could bring that are easy to eat (so no assembly or anything) I can’t find anything that looks ok :(

Hello, I’m 17 years old and autistic and have been picky for my entire life. My picky eating is so different from all of these stereotypes. Some of my safe foods are more complex and are commonly disliked. I suffered from anorexia and I consider myself fully recovered from it, however my eating is difficult for a different reason now. I’ve always had this to some degree but for the last couple of years I have such a lack of interest in food, nothing sounds edible, I rarely get cravings, if I was left alone I’d just not eat. I know it’s not anorexic restriction because I genuinely want to be fed I just don’t want to consume food. Some days I get so overwhelmed I shut down, my mum tries her best to find foods I’ll eat but some nights it takes hours, I don’t WANT anything. I’m not malnourished or at medical risk but I’m struggling so much, if I go out for a meal I rarely feel able to actually eat what I order, I get so anxious and upset when presented with all of the options, there’s always something wrong with the dishes I would usually eat, like they have cheese or mayo or something unsafe. Am I being dramatic or do I have Arfid?

I know I’m chronically ill, I know there’s multiple problems here. But my mum? Every time I bring up my desire to get tested and possibly diagnosed she shuts it down.

I almost definitely have pots and I want to be diagnosed so badly, I have ocd and having a fixed reason for my symptoms would ease so many of my obsessive paranoid thoughts about them. I also suffer from chronic headaches, I have them every day and sometimes it’s literally disabling (migraines?)

I’m also worried I might have me/cfs (mild for now) I get severe fatigue episodes - I feel like have the flu, my head feels like it’s in a clamp, light hurts, sound is uncomfortable, it’s awful. If I actually get a cold on top of that I’m practically dead, I can’t do anything. I don’t have episodes like that daily but I’m always tired, my limbs are weak and it hurts to even brush my hair.

I want to see a doctor, I want them to test me for deficiencies or abnormalities that could easily explain my symptoms. I want to be wrong so badly, I want it to be fixable with meds or vitamins. But I can’t be right or wrong if I don’t get seen. My mum doesn’t really listen when I express my desire to seek diagnosis/testing, she thinks it’s a waste of time but I need to know what’s wrong with me. I don’t know what to do

I’m only 17 and already I feel like I’m 80 years old. I’m not diagnosed and I don’t even know how to start seeking diagnosis. The following statement is directed at me by me, I am not invalidating anyone else and I do not believe this for anyone other than myself: dysautonomia feels like it’s not a big deal, everyone has symptoms like this sometimes. I’m scared that I’m being overdramatic and using it as an excuse to be lazy.

I have a horrible headache, it’s so bad, my head feels warm and heavy :( luckily I don’t have any severe light sensitivity or other symptoms but oh my god this headache is awful. Why can’t I just be normal. I’m not normal in any way and it’s actually unfair at this point

Hi, i get a bit carried away when writing posts like this so sorry if it gets long. I’m 17 and I’ve been having periods for around 6 years, since my second cycle my symptoms have worsened and it got to the point where I couldn’t continue having periods. I get extreme uterine cramping, stomach cramping, diarrhoea (I can’t leave the bathroom much on the first couple of days), leg pain, back pain, nausea, lightheadedness, headaches and occasional vomiting. I do NOT have excessively long or heavy periods so I’ve always been a little hesitant to question if something is wrong.

Anyway I’m now on the combined pill and my life is so much easier, I can actually live without fearing a week of hell every month!! However I have a few concerns and if anyone could share knowledge I’d be so grateful. I still experience severe cramping but it’s short lived and very random, this might be tmi but I also get cramp like sensations in my vagina, those tend to last a while and are awful. Are these things I should be worried about? My symptoms are distressing when they occur but because they’re not regular it doesn’t have a big impact on my life so I’m not sure

I have a huge problem and it’s so embarrassing. My focus spot for picking at the moment is my scalp, I pick it until it bleeds and I might even have permanent bald spots from where it’s scarred. I’m trying SO hard to leave the two worst spots alone and so far I’ve been successful, however I’m picking other spots now and it hurts :( I can’t not do it, I try so hard but my hands just go there naturally :( before this it was my face and my whole life I’ve chewed my nails and fingers and it’s only gotten worse as I’ve got older.

What I’m really worried about is if I do manage to stop picking my head (which I highly doubt I will) I’ll get drawn back to my most harmful behaviour- lip biting. I get stuck, I start biting my lip and then it’s like I’m possessed, I can’t stop. I get fixated on getting the fat lumps out or fixing sharp edges and then when I’m finally done I have a hole that could fit a chickpea and I’m bleeding profusely. I don’t really know what response I want from this post I just want people to know. I hate this so much

Hi this is not really a big issue it’s just something I’m confused about. When I squat and then lean forward my left ankle feels fine, however my right ankle gets sore and feels like there’s resistance or like it needs to be popped back into place?? This only happens when I’m squatting does anyone know what this is??

Hello! I recently bought a kindle and it has reignited my love for reading. I’ve not read a lot in the past few years as I’ve not been in a good place, I’d really appreciate if you could recommend some good books for me? They don’t have to be extremely well known :)

Reading this bit is optional but here’s a bit about me and my preferences if you want to recommend something more personal:
Im a mature teen/young adult, I’m autistic and pretty significantly disabled and mentally ill but I am absolutely fine with darker themes like violence, death, illness etc. I LOVE a bit of romance (queer especially but not exclusively) and I’m comfortable with sex and intimacy in media as long as it’s fairly vanilla. I am a huge fan of the hunger games and I also really enjoy reading fanfiction about the marauders 🫣 (the marauders are Harry potters parents and co ((I do not support jk Rowling I want to make that very clear)) The genres I’m drawn to most are horror, mystery/adventure and crime but I’m also willing to try different things :)

Extra note: im not comfortable with “dark romance” that I see on booktok so nothing like that please :)

I’m so pissed, when me and my ex best friend started to grow apart she made me feel like a freak because I dont like boys so obviously I wasn’t interested in raving about them. But now?? Now she’s attending pride with her other queer friends, I think she’s queer herself and I’m so hurt. Why is ok for you to be different but not for me?! Obviously I don’t want her to be homophobic I’m just upset because why was I weird for it :(

Edit: thank you all so much for your lovely comments it makes me feel a bit better that this isn’t something that just happens to me, it’s still shitty though

Hello. I’m a 17 year old female and I’m really struggling. I get these episodes (not particularly regular but very intense and upsetting) where my whole body feels like I’m going to explode, it’s like skin crawling sensation. It only goes away with movement; I have to constantly move my leg or it builds up and up and up until I jerk involuntarily. What is this????

I get this awful feeling sometimes that I’m a fraud or a failure because I didn’t get sick as young as some other people do, I know it’s irrational but I feel so weird

Hello, im hoping someone can help me out. I’m not currently diagnosed with any chronic physical conditions other than hyperhidrosis and possible HEDs but I’ve been suffering with frequent, repetitive symptoms that often really impact my ability to function. I’m almost positive that I have some form of dysautonomia, I experience heart palpitations, tachycardia, chest pain, fatigue that can be up to an 11/10 with how bad it is, headaches that often come with bad light sensitivity, breathlessness/tight feeling in my chest (not very severe but relevant maybe), lightheadedness, full body aches, flu like symptoms and very poor temperature regulation, sometimes I’m freezing for no reason and others I’m so hot I feel almost as if I could faint, also regardless of temperature I sweat through my clothes in minutes which is awful. These symptoms sometimes have me lying down doing nothing all day, specifically the fatigue and lightheadedness, I had an episode of SEVERE dizziness the other week, I couldn’t lift my head without the room spinning/twisting. Anyway what I’m asking is for some advice on what testing I should request? I don’t want to seem like I WANT a disorder but I want to be taken seriously. I had a 48 hour heart monitor however it felt pretty useless as my symptoms were very tame during that period. Should I request a 7 day one? I’m also kind of wondering if a tilt table test might provide some useful information, should I ask for one?? What testing could help find out what’s wrong

I’m currently using “universal recolour” and I love it, it helps prevent headaches which I get so easily but I have a problem, I’m using the frontier farm and there’s random patches of the base game colour? It’s not unbearable but it’s definitely annoying. Does anyone know what usually causes this or what I can do? If there’s nothing I can do or you don’t know could you recommend some desaturated recolour mods for me? I tried starblue and I didn’t like it