Forgetting to eat

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Rarely do I "forget" to eat

Please give instructions

Usually I eat at regular intervals

Emotional overreacting

If I get busy doing something I will forget to eat and to have something to drink. Hungry and dehydrated isn't fun.

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When you are so busy you forget to eat, what are you doing?

I usd to only eat one big meal as a kid until about my 30s due to being a very picky eater who couldn't cook & my mom hated cooking special meals for me. When I 1st got a computer & internet which was rite after I graduated high-skewl, I would spend soo much time online that i would forget to eat till late at night & then I had to force myself to eat & I could usually only eat a tiny bit before gagging due to anxiety about wanting to get back online as soon as possible.

Yes, and it's been a major sticking point for getting the support that my diagnosis indicated. I simply cannot get any of the people responsible for this to take this point seriously. Aside from the fact that the practical ability to feed oneself properly is judged by one's ability to make sandwich, they simply seem unable understand how hyper-focus, poor executive function, and depression interact to make obtaining enough food and then actually eating it seemingly impossible sometimes; even when my GP has indicated signs of nutritional problems. Having nothing at all several days in a month is not unusual for me. Even deciding what I want to eat can get me into a vicious circle of procrastinating that results in me missing the shops when I have an empty larder.

It sounds like the NHS is overloaded and in triage mode, which means they only take action on the most serious cases. The rich get to bypass the system by hiring private doctors.

It may help to push for a service or prescription you need, rather than a diagnoses.

This is a big problem for me and SO annoying! Previously I used to be really interested in eating and in fact, ate enough to be uncomfortably overweight. It's only been since I have had a brain injury (several years now), which because of its location, tends to accentuate my (undiagnosed) autistic tendencies.

It's like I don't recognize the signs of hunger, and sometimes even when I know I'm hungry it's difficult to make myself eat. My diet is very restricted due to sensory issues, and if I don't have exactly the right food(s) it's super difficult for me to make myself eat. As a result (perhaps) my diet is unbalanced, but I've come to see it as "some calories are better than no calories" so if it's an emergency I'll go ahead and eat [x high-calorie food] even though it's not nutritionally ideal.

It's a huge struggle to maintain any sort of routine or schedule since I haven't been able to work the last several years and spend most days just kicking back at my house. But, having a routine is one of my goals, so I hope to get that together some day. Been trying to eat whenever my pets do, at least... the cats in particular don't let me get away with forgetting to feed them. The dog, I'm afraid, is too polite to ask for anything to eat, but the only way to feed the cats peacefully is by feeding the dog first, or she will lunge at them trying to start up a fight. So she does get fed. As I said, I'm trying to attach my own consumption to the pets' meals, but I don't always remember and sometimes I rebel against myself even if I do remember.

Perhaps you can use an alarm clock as a reminder to eat and feed your pets. Computers often have programs that can be used to set alarms throughout the day.

I do not know if I am hyposensitive (i.e. I cannot feel any of the subtler signals) or hypersensitive (i.e. all of the subtler signals feel worse) to the signals from my body about hunger or thirst. All I know is that by the time I recognize a signal, I feel like I am ill from hypoglycemia or from dehydration.

Either way, I cannot trust the signals to give me accurate information about my needs. I am either not eating enough or eating too much, and I have, at different times, both lost a lot of weight uncontrollably and gained a lot of weight uncontrollably.

I need to keep track of the time to know when to eat or, better yet, since I also have difficulty with keeping track of the time, I need to set alarms and mark breakfast, lunch, and dinner like I do for feeding my dog.

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