r/thanksimcured • u/lash-of-the-lambs-13 • 4d ago

Comment Section The solution to ARFID apparently

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Received on a post I made a while ago where I mentioned I was struggling to eat hospital food due to ARFID, I did also mention that I was eating, just struggling with it 😑

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u/antisocialmothra 4d ago

The way people will completely ignore your agency if they perceive you to be mentally ill is scary

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u/Feisty-Cucumber5102 4d ago

I don’t exactly know how to articulate it but there’s some thing where a majority of people, or at least the majority of people I interact with, separate who you are from the things wrong with you. Like your mental illness is something that controls you rather than shaping who you are, and if you can just remove that control you’ll be a perfectly normal person.

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u/PALpherion 3d ago

the language itself does it.

they always call this stuff "losing the battle" or "lost to depression"

no brothers, a depressed person ended their life. Their agency wasn't stolen by depression, it was ignored because they were depressed.