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Help me fight my SED !!

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Ever since I can remember now, I've had a crippling fear of food. Not many people know this about me, only close friends and family really, but it's been a massive issue for me, for the majority of my life. It may seem like something easy to live with, just a case of eating what I can. But in actual fact, it has taken its toll in many ways. Socially for one, I can't eat out at many places, I can't eat with friends, I've never been able to accept a dinner date, I've had issues with Christmas meals. I've never had a proper Sunday dinner with my family! I have a limited ability to travel, due to the cultural changes to food around the world. This hindered me when school took trips, when I was at the age all my friends were travelling and mostly when I wanted to go and work in lesser able countries to help out! Obviously, the biggest hit has been my health. Having such a limited palette, has been quite detrimental to my health and wellbeing. Whilst I'm not considered "unwell", I am very unfit. I get out of breath by walking up a set of stairs, I can't take up a sport or go dancing. I can't take up a healthy eating regime or eat clean! One of the biggest downfalls of this happened most recently. When I got pregnant, I swore I would fix myself, to put the right nutrients into my body for my son! But this was harder than I anticipated. Much, much harder. During my delivery, I lost a lot of blood, and was diagnosed "Iron-Deficient Anaemic". Which caused me to be very unwell after my Son was here, which really took away from the amazing experience that it should have been. I felt that I had let him down! I wasn't able to care for him to an extent for around 10 days. I was lucky to have so much support and help.
For my entire life, this fear of food was never diagnosable, it was just cast off as "fussy". It was something I'd shy from discussing and it has very much affected me emotionally. Now I've learned there is a reason behind my eating problems. In 2013, it was accepted into the world as SELECTIVE EATING DISORDER or ARFID (avoidant restrictive food intake disporder). I read an article on this, and broke out in tears of happiness that it was finally something accepted, something treatable. Which is what I want more than anything. To be treated. There is a treatment by Felix Economakis, that has the highest success rate in the world. Unfortunately, having just had a baby and being on Maternity Leave, leaves me with limited funds. I want to raise £400 to attend a session with him in London to help me finally have a healthy life. I don't want to raise my Son to fear food the way I do. I want to be a good role model for him and I want to know I'm healthy enough to be around long enough to see him grow old! I'm not expecting miracles, but any support would mean the world to me ! Please share and donate!

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Bec Ashton
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