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Old 09-01-2005, 11:44 PM   #1
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Trouble eating public

Hey, does anyone have trouble eating in public like me? If so, what have you tried? Did you get over it? If yes, how?

 
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Re: Trouble eating public

Yeah I have huge problems with this as well. It freaks me out to have different foods touching and I always have to eat them in a specific order and I can't touch the next food in order until the one before it is done. So when I am out I feel like everyone is watching me eat. And I have to try so hard to mix my food up so that people won't wonder why I am eating weird. So all of this really stresses me out when I am eating with other people. I hate it and wish that I could get over it but I can't. It is very stressful to be eating and having all these things on my mind.

 
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I know! It's crazy. I'm in therapy for it right now. I hate to have foods mixed up. They have to be separate or I find some way to not eat them.

 
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frickfrak- The fact that you need to have food in a certain order- not touching one another- and you have to eat the food a certain way, might indicate Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. If you can't eat the food the way you want it, do you get anxious? I have OCD, and though I don't organize my food all of the time, I do eat things in an orderly manner: every day, since at least seventh grade (I just graduated), I took the exact same school lunch and ate it in the exact same order. Some minor things changed over the years, but I took a tuna sandwich mixed with mayonnaise ever since kindergarten... And, if we ran out of something, and my lunch was messed up, ooh! How that bugged me! Other examples would be the following: I have to eat one food at a time; for example, I can't take a bite of a hamburger and then eat some fries- I need to eat the whole hamburger and then all of the fries. When I eat Spaghetti-O's, I eat every single "O" and then I pile the meatballs, and eat them, cutting each one in half. When I get something that has assorted flavors, I always eat them from my least favorite to my favorite flavors: Starburst- orange, lemon, strawberry, cherry; Skittles- orange, lemon, lime, grape, strawberry; Gushers- watermelon, strawberry, tropical- the list goes on and on! Write back if you have any questions.
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I think for me it's more like I want to see everything I'm putting in my body. I have problems with swallowing and I want to see what I'm swallowing.

 
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