Greetings! It's been a while. I'll blame COVID brain on my lack of writing over the past year. Can you believe it's been a year of this shit? And it looks like we're about to ride another wave, this time the variants B117 and P4. I'm not here to write about COVID. I'm here to talk about food. Specifically, the psychology of eating. There's a lot of attention being given to this idea of "ARFID" or Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, in patients with chronic digestive disease. This is a psychiatric diagnosis conceptualized mostly for children with sensory issues or similar concerns. The main questionnaire used to assess ARFID, the Nine Item ARFID Scale (NIAS), is only validated in children . While I absolutely agree there are adults with chronic digestive disease who meet the criteria for ARFID, this whole thing makes me a bit twitchy. Here's why. First: Did you ever drink too much tequila and puke and maybe have one of the worst hango
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