Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.

Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.

Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival

Podcast. Today I want to talk to you about when our kids have anxiety and OCD and it impacts their eating, which is incredibly

scary and it's kind of a game changer in my opinion when it impacts their health in that way because if you have a kid

who's anxious or having intrusive thoughts about food and about eating that can

really impact their well-being, their health, and their life. So it's a good

topic to talk about. It's something that I live with every day, so I'm super

passionate about this topic and I feel like there needs to be a lot more education

and conversation about it because I know those parents in the trenches, myself included, it can feel like a very lonely experience and very frustrating

because the medical field and even the mental health field don't always get this and they can

say the wrong things or suggest the wrong things and really leave us feeling

hopeless or

paranoid or

Feeling guilty that maybe there's something that we're not doing correctly.

So let's get into it.

For starters, okay, so with eating issues, there are so many different things that cause this, and there

used to be a DSM diagnosis called selective eating disorder.

And then when the new DSM came out,

they changed that diagnosis,

completely got rid of that,

and renamed it Arfeit,

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