Hello everyone! I have a really strange question -- I am kind of traumatized around certain foods after a bad experience accompanied them. For example, for over 12 years I wouldn't eat anything grape because it made me nauseous due to the fact that I took a disgusting "grape flavored" allergy medication for about 5 years when I was younger. Another example is chocolate ice cream. When I was younger and couldn't swallow pills, I used to have to crush up certain medications and try to mix them in with chocolate ice cream to disguise the flavor, well it didn't work needless to say, and I couldn't eat it for probably 4 years. Since then I've started slowly reintroducing them back into my diet, and they don't gross me out any more.
Well, in sort of the same manner, I found worms (over 50) in some cod that I ordered from a restaurant the other day. I had already had a few bites before I noticed they were in there (they were TINY), and now I feel like I can never eat any sort of fish
2007-01-04 08:10:05 · 8 answers · asked by Happy 3 in Health ➔ Mental Health
... again. I don't know if this is a normal "traumatization" or if it's not. I'm not like crazy about it, i.e. it's not like I can't be in the same room with the foods that bother me. I just don't want to eat them, and when I took, I get sick to my stomach.
THank you so much!
2007-01-04 08:11:09 · update #1
EDIT: Where it says "and I took," it's supposed to say "and I took a bite of it."
2007-01-04 08:12:38 · update #2
This is an absolutely normal reaction to bad experiences. I myself fell victim to a grandmother who forced a tomato down my throat when I was little- and it took me 20 years before I could even touch them or think to eat them again! If you have a negative experience with something you will always associate that item (food) whatever the case may be with negativity. When you begin to grow and change your mindset regarding these traumatic experiences is when you will be open to them again. But these are completely normal reactions. Dont worry!
2007-01-04 08:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by Drea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once heard a story about a mouse in a cage with a chunk of cheese that was wired to shock him every time he touched it. Turns out, he wouldn't go near similar blocks of cheese due to his conditioning. Sometime later, however, he was given a peice of cheese after the initial wired cheese was removed. He sniffed at it tentatively, and began to nibble on it after a few minutes. Seconds later however, he had somehow gotten a chunk of it stuck in his throat and choked to death. I hope that helps, I heard that story a long time ago, so it might be missing some details.
2007-01-04 08:25:38 · answer #2 · answered by evilclownspiders 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is normal I have the same things I don't like shrimp because I ate a shrimp with the shrimps poop still in it and it grossed me out a lot I also wont eat lobster because I seen one alive and it reminded me of a bug. I can't eat french silk pie because it made me sick once.
2007-01-04 08:14:13 · answer #3 · answered by Rachel Bitchface 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I rather use the fork because it's much easier to eat with a fork :) Plus I am not from China and I am not used to eat with sticks :) But sometimes just for fun I try with sticks .
2016-05-23 03:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a nurse. It is very normal I have similar things to happen to me. As a result I'm now a vegan, you are OK.
2007-01-04 08:13:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this is more post-traumatic behavior, rather than a phobia.
2007-01-04 08:17:53 · answer #6 · answered by artwizs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eat salmon..its good for you (omega 3's)and doesnt have any worms in it.
2007-01-04 08:14:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
everything sounds normal.
2007-01-04 08:14:37 · answer #8 · answered by iroc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋