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Thank you.

You're welcome. I am so glad you're with us today to talk about this important topic.

But first, I'm going to introduce you.

Taylor Ray is a licensed professional counselor, a Georgia-appro approved supervisor, and certified eating disorder

specialist approved supervisor. That is a mouthful. She has been working with patients with

eating disorders since 2012, wow, for a long time, across multiple levels of care,

including inpatient residential, partial hospitalization, and outpatient treatment settings.

She is currently the clinical director at Fairness Collaboratives, Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

She has a strong passion for providing evidence-based treatment while collaborating within a multidisciplinary

team to provide the best possible care to patients and their families. So we are talking about

our FID today, which is avoidant restricted food intake disorder. This is new for a lot of folks, but we're talking about it on this podcast because

autistic people, people diagnosed with ADHD are more likely to meet criteria for ARFID.

And another thing to consider with this disordered eating, and this isn't surprising that people with ARFIT are more likely to

struggle with anxiety and obviously this is going to impact every aspect of their lives. So tell us

a little more about ARFID. Right. So as you said, ARFID is avoidant, restrictive food intake disorder.

And while it is anew to the eating disorder diagnosis, it's not necessarily a new diagnosis prior to the DSM5 coming out. The feeding people will say that they've been treating this for a really long time. But I think with the DSM coming out and combining feeding and eating disorders together,

expanding age criteria and all that, it's brought a lot more awareness to the diagnosis.

We conceptualize ARFID in kind of like three categories.

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