u/Dry_Help819

So this is a repost from r/arfid but it says that this subreddit may be a better place for my question. I got one answer on another but I need another opinion since my post in ARFID isnt getting much traction.

Hi so I am a 13m and I haven’t really had a history with picky eating up until a like a couple months ago. So just for background info I have extreme contamination anxiety (as well as social but Thats not important) and possible ocd (my sister has it and I show symptoms). So some foods I cannot eat include melted shredded cheese, cereal, Mac and cheese, corn, canned and fresh mushrooms, key lime pie, graham crackers, and frozen yogurt tubes. It seems like the foods i can’t eat are expanding every day. So backstory on some of the foods, I had a burrito one day and decided to save the rest for later that night, I reheated it at like 12am not really thinking much of it. I took a bite and there was so much cheese in my mouth I started gagging and almost threw up. I threw the burrito away. Another time I reheated a meal that had cheese in it and I ate some and got a glop of cheese and started gagging, spit it back into the bowl, and threw everything away I haven’t eaten melted shredded cheese since. For the cereal i was eating some cinnamon toasters (off brand Cinnamon Toast Crunch) and I took a bite and it just tasted off and I gagged and threw it away and haven’t eaten cereal since. I could gag just thinking about the cheese and cereal. For the frozen yogurt tubes i was eating one one day and I just didn’t like the residue it left on the roof of my mouth. I spit it out and haven’t eaten it since. I don’t like Mac and cheese because I ate it and it tasted too much like the Mac and not the cheese I guess? (And there was melted shredded cheese in it. Im okay with powdered cheese and cheese sauce) and I haven’t eaten it since. Now for the other foods i dont know where I even heard of this but I was searching up the amount of bugs allowed in certain foods i was eating, and it absolutely disgusted me. Now about the graham crackers i was eating some and I saw holes in it that weren’t apart of the design and it disgusted me and I threw it away and haven’t eaten them since. Now more on the bugs, I don’t want to say exactly how many bugs are allowed due to the fact that this subreddit is about arfid and some people have really bad anxiety but corn, mushrooms, ingredients in key lime pie, and ingredients in graham crackers have an allowance of bugs in them. (Sorry if this is really unorganized but I don’t really care.) my appetite has been getting really small like one day we had egg rolls, rice, and broccoli and I had 1-2 vegetable egg rolls, like 3 florets of broccoli and threw the rest away. I didn’t even touch the rice. My anxiety has been so bad one day i was drinking water out of my water bottle and swallowed something solid. It disgusted me so much I forced myself to throw up just to feel reassured that there were no bugs in me. I have lost 11 lbs since to middle/end of July. Is this arfid? I feel like it might not be because I don’t have a history with picky eating but this is really jarring to not be able to eat some of my favorite foods.

Hi so I am a 13m and I haven’t really had a history with picky eating up until a like a couple months ago. So just for background info I have extreme contamination anxiety (as well as social but Thats not important) and possible ocd (my sister has it and I show symptoms). So some foods I cannot eat include melted shredded cheese, cereal, Mac and cheese, corn, canned and fresh mushrooms, key lime pie, graham crackers, and frozen yogurt tubes. It seems like the foods i can’t eat are expanding every day. So backstory on some of the foods, I had a burrito one day and decided to save the rest for later that night, I reheated it at like 12am not really thinking much of it. I took a bite and there was so much cheese in my mouth I started gagging and almost threw up. I threw the burrito away. Another time I reheated a meal that had cheese in it and I ate some and got a glop of cheese and started gagging, spit it back into the bowl, and threw everything away I haven’t eaten melted shredded cheese since. For the cereal i was eating some cinnamon toasters (off brand Cinnamon Toast Crunch) and I took a bite and it just tasted off and I gagged and threw it away and haven’t eaten cereal since. I could gag just thinking about the cheese and cereal. For the frozen yogurt tubes i was eating one one day and I just didn’t like the residue it left on the roof of my mouth. I spit it out and haven’t eaten it since. I don’t like Mac and cheese because I ate it and it tasted too much like the Mac and not the cheese I guess? (And there was melted shredded cheese in it. Im okay with powdered cheese and cheese sauce) and I haven’t eaten it since. Now for the other foods i dont know where I even heard of this but I was searching up the amount of bugs allowed in certain foods i was eating, and it absolutely disgusted me. Now about the graham crackers i was eating some and I saw holes in it that weren’t apart of the design and it disgusted me and I threw it away and haven’t eaten them since. Now more on the bugs, I don’t want to say exactly how many bugs are allowed due to the fact that this subreddit is about arfid and some people have really bad anxiety but corn, mushrooms, ingredients in key lime pie, and ingredients in graham crackers have an allowance of bugs in them. (Sorry if this is really unorganized but I don’t really care.) my appetite has been getting really small like one day we had egg rolls, rice, and broccoli and I had 1-2 vegetable egg rolls, like 3 florets of broccoli and threw the rest away. I didn’t even touch the rice. My anxiety has been so bad one day i was drinking water out of my water bottle and swallowed something solid. It disgusted me so much I forced myself to throw up just to feel reassured that there were no bugs in me. I have lost 11 lbs since to middle/end of July. Is this arfid? I feel like it might not be because I don’t have a history with picky eating but this is really jarring to not be able to eat some of my favorite foods.

So I am 13m trying to run cross country this year, im going to the doctor soon to get a rescue inhaler but while I don’t have one is there a way to condition myself to run faster for longer? I have had asthma since I was born, I have a nebulizer that I never use and a scheduled inhaler (symbicort) twice a day. Is there a way to run cross country with this bad of asthma? I know that this community is for high school and stuff but I need an experienced runner to answer my question. School starts in 15 days pls answer soon. I’ll probably have a couple weeks before they start doing sports stuff but I need to train now.

I am a 13 yr old male and I when I’m upset I have the worst anger ever. I am in a group home which is good for the most part but Theres this one staff who I despise. I have two names. One is a preferred name and the other is my legal name. I hate my legal name and im very private about it, I don’t like my meds being done in front of people and I completely disregard that name. Today I missed my morning meds, I am usually on and off of them because I sleep in late and they can only give them 1 hour before or 1 hour after. Another kid was going out and I wanted to come. They told me no because I missed my meds. That is illegal. They cannot punish me for not taking my meds. I took a walk instead of getting angry. Now the real story started tonight when I was going to be given my meds. We have two living rooms. One is small and the other one is big. In the small living room the table is close to the couches. They decided it would be a good idea to do my meds on that table while another resident was sitting there. The boxes they have our meds in is clear. I asked them to move. Ever since I got here in august of 2025 I have been private about my meds and have asked every staff to put them away before they gave others meds because I didn’t want them to see my name. I do not exclusively ask one staff to do this. I went back and forth with the staff about MY privacy. Eventually I just screamed at her and went upstairs. I ended up hitting the wall as an outlet for my anger but I’m genuinely still so angry I could break her face. I have never acted on these thoughts of violence but I get so angry I understand why people kill each other. And it’s over something most people would consider small. I don’t want to be crazy or a killer because that’s terrible, but these thoughts get so intense. I never actually WANT to kill anyone just hurt them really badly. Is there a way I can manage this?

So I started banging my head when I was angry a little bit over 6-8 months ago and I started getting these frequent muscle twitches all over my body, I get them everyday now. I also feel a bit weak (not super weak where I can’t walk down stairs or cant lift my arm) but I feel a little weaker than usual, I was able to walk all over Oakland zoo sitting down only once for like a minute and I was able to walk over hills, this weakness kinda started today. I haven’t banged my head in a while but I’m scared that it is als, I don’t want to say it because I’m scared that I might manifest something. Im really scared and I haven’t experienced any muscle stiffness at all or slurred speech except for when I read too fast aloud. I will be going to the doctor soon but I want to get a second opinion.