Roxy
Well-Known Member
I've always been a very fussy eater. When I was young there were times when my mother just seemed to give up on trying to find something for me to eat, which resulted in me becoming very hungry. If I wasn't prepared to eat what everyone else ate, I went without or snacked on stuff that's really not good for me.
I've always gone through stages where a particular food is my current favourite and I'll eat it a couple of times a week or more, but then after a few months I'll get fed up with it.
It's not that I don't like things, it's more the anxiety that surrounds me trying new foods. Even if I do find a new food I like, doesn't mean I can eat it. I usually find, the very thought of having it inside me makes me feel nauseous.
The result is that I eat food that's really not good for me. I have a very limited diet, consisting of a lot of high fat, high sugar food. I've always been big but now it's way out of control.
I was put on Quetiapine a couple of years ago after 10 years of severe depression. It's helped a lot. Around the same time I was diagnosed with AS, which also helped a lot. The Quetiapine makes me feel hungry, something I fear (probably as a result of feeling so hungry as a child).
I don't know how to overcome all this. I need the Quetiapine (this is the happiest I've felt in years). I want to have a more varied and healthy diet but I don't know how to achieve this.
I've always gone through stages where a particular food is my current favourite and I'll eat it a couple of times a week or more, but then after a few months I'll get fed up with it.
It's not that I don't like things, it's more the anxiety that surrounds me trying new foods. Even if I do find a new food I like, doesn't mean I can eat it. I usually find, the very thought of having it inside me makes me feel nauseous.
The result is that I eat food that's really not good for me. I have a very limited diet, consisting of a lot of high fat, high sugar food. I've always been big but now it's way out of control.
I was put on Quetiapine a couple of years ago after 10 years of severe depression. It's helped a lot. Around the same time I was diagnosed with AS, which also helped a lot. The Quetiapine makes me feel hungry, something I fear (probably as a result of feeling so hungry as a child).
I don't know how to overcome all this. I need the Quetiapine (this is the happiest I've felt in years). I want to have a more varied and healthy diet but I don't know how to achieve this.