Where Does A Phobia Of Food Come From?

Sometimes a person knows, or remembers some incident from childhood when they became very fearful of food but usually a person has no memory because it happened at such a young age. It is quite common for very young children to go of their food for a few days, usually to the total alarm of the parents, although usually the child naturally re-establishes a ‘normal’ relationship with eating before long. The good news, in terms of curing food phobia, is that it doesn’t matter how it began.

The Parent Tries Everything But Nothing Seems To Work

Occasionally though the person gets ‘stuck’ into a set of thoughts and feelings about food that make them which results in a phobic response to certain (often most) types of foods. The parent tries everything under the sun to get them to eat more food but nothing seems to work. When they express their concerns to the doctor they are usually told that the child will grow out of it, and to be fair, the child usually does in time.

Stuck With A Food Phobia

The clients we see are usually adults, often those who have tried lots of things to get rid of their phobia, quite often those who have never done anything about it but have reached the point in their lives when they are totally ‘fed up’ with the fear.  What they have invariably experienced every time they have tried to eat a ‘new’ food is a gagging or choking response, and it is the fear of gagging, the anticipation that it is ‘going to happen’ that continues to drive the problem.

What Can Be Done About A Phobia Of Food?

Essentially, a fear of food is not a complicated thing, its not like someone is doing a host of different things in their mind when it comes to trying new food. They are doing one thing, the same way, each time. It usually surprises people that this phobia can often be dealt with quite quickly over 3 or 4 sessions, and occasionally one session has sufficed.

What Exactly Will You Do To Cure My Food Phobia

We use direct effective reconditioning techniques from the fields of both hypnotherapy and NLP. We deal with the patterns that have become established and we don’t care where they started because however they started they have become habituated. Now this may be a big, unpleasant habit but it is a habit nevertheless, and habits can be changes.

Testimonial

Brendon’s had lived through five decades of restricted eating due to extreme fear of eating

"I have had a severe eating disorder since I was 4. I am now 56.

As a baby I had polio and I as in hospital for six weeks.  My mother was not allowed to see me!

Before I went into hospital I ate everything according to my mother.  When I came out of hospital I had an eating trauma which left me eating a small number of things

I am now 56.  My eating has had a major impact on my life – I avoided any situations where I did not know in advance that I wouldn’t be presented with food I couldn’t eat.

One day I entered ‘eating disorders’ into Google and came up with the ‘JustbeWell’ site.  It took me several months before I called one name on the site, Paul Wright.  I did not really believe he would make a difference, but I was wrong.  In one session with Mr Wright, plus time with a CD he supplied (Help Stop Fears, Phobias and Anxieties), I was much more relaxed than I’d ever been.  Soon I was going into restaurants and ordering things I’d never had before and eating them.  My approach to eating has radically changed.

It was expensive, but wonderful value for money.

If you, like me, have had a very limited diet for some time, I’d strongly recommend you get in with Paul Wright.

Many thanks"

Brendon