By Madeline Holcombe, CNN
CNN — When Hannah was 7 years old, she told her parents she didn’t want to be afraid of food
anymore.She had stopped wanting to go to Girl Scouts, birthday parties, restaurants, family celebrations and even the dinner table. Food was everywhere, and it gave her a lot of anxiety, said her mom, Michelle, who is not sharing their last name for Hannah’s safety.
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Ann Marie Presberg says
Thanks for keeping us all informed, Krisi! My concern with this diagnosis is it makes the feeding struggle “psychiatric”. There’s often SO much history to the feeding struggle and I’d hate for parents to worry that their picky eaters have a psych condition. There’s so much to do if intervention is early, retraining the parent-child days around food from pressure and stress to peaceful exposures. Often the older kids had feeding stress and conflict since infancy that was not addressed so feeding never was autonomous and internal for the child. I love the “awareness” though.