{"id":8825,"date":"2020-09-09T23:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2020-09-09T23:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T22:10:59","slug":"when-i-feel-too-anxious-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2020\/09\/when-i-feel-too-anxious-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"When I feel too anxious to eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Content note<\/strong>: In this post I talk about anxiety, struggling to eat, and mushy foods that help me. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: None of this is medical advice, just my thoughts! Please speak to your doctor if your mental and\/or physical health is taking a turn for the worse at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I want to write about topics like this to normalise talking about mental health problems, especially as they are so prevalent in the bi community. It&#8217;s easy to look around and feel like you are the only one. <\/p>\n<p>Do you ever get so anxious it makes you feel sick? Thankfully it doesn&#8217;t happen to me very often, but when it does I really hate it. It sticks around for ages and even when I do everything &#8216;right&#8217; to help myself and self care nothing seems to make a dent in it. <\/p>\n<p>I signed up for counselling. Exercise regularly. Get lots of sleep and rest. Talk to friends. Etc. etc. etc. thanks for nothing, anxious brain. I feel full all the time, and when I cook I can barely swallow more than a few mouthfuls. <\/p>\n<p>When you feel like this, what food helps you? <\/p>\n<p>For me soft, mushy food is all I can manage. My favourites are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>smoothies <\/li>\n<li>sausages and baked beans<\/li>\n<li>soup<\/li>\n<li>porridge with cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>ice cream &amp; ice lollies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Something that helps me is, putting a small amount on my plate to start with so I&#8217;m not putting any pressure on myself. Often I feel able to go back for seconds &#8211; which feels better for me than starting with too much and feeling overwhelmed then having to put some back.<\/p>\n<p>I try to be gentle with myself and remember that this round of anxiety will break at some point and I will feel a lot more normal again.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs for all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content note: In this post I talk about anxiety, struggling to eat, and mushy foods that help me. Disclaimer: None of this is medical advice, just my thoughts! Please speak to your doctor if your mental and\/or physical health is taking a turn for the worse at the moment. I want to write about topics \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/09\/bisexual-mental-health-anxiety\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When I feel too anxious to\u00a0eat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,852,853,11,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","category-eating","category-food","category-mental-health","category-my-bi-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8826,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions\/8826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}