Life became so consuming and unmanageable, losing control of reality, and I turned to exercise and eating as a coping mechanism.
It is okay if you need a boulder to lean on, to help you through like I have with Harvey. I am determined to keep fighting.
Our Helpline was here for Christina when her and her family needed it the most.
All I knew from the age of 18 months was that food was scary and anything out of my ‘norm’ would make me panic.
I cannot quite explain the feeling when I clicked on to the page titled ARFID on the Beat website.
Supporting someone with ARFID? Let Programme Manager Lucy tell you about our support service, Endeavour.
Our supporter Chloe shares her experience of living with ARFID, and her hopes for better understanding of the eating disorder
Our supporter Frankie shares their experience of discovering they have ARFID, and how far they've come in their recovery
Despite being recognised as a serious condition, research into ARFID has been limited.
Our Helpline hero talks ARFID, autism and racial inequality
Our supporter Adele shares her story
For the first time, I had a name for what I had been experiencing for over a decade. It wasn’t just in my head. I had ARFID.
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I can’t remember exactly when my relationship with food became toxic but, once it did, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill, getting larger and larger and faster and faster.
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I guess my eating disorder began pretty generically. I had booked a girls’ holiday and didn’t want to feel uncomfortable in a bikini, so about six weeks before I was due to embark on a fun-filled week in the sun, the ‘holiday diet’ began.