Once again, I am sorry for you. I think I understand what you are saying a bit more. When I had a spiritual crisis during my teenage years I had no idea what I thought or believed. It was critical and my loss of self felt catastropic. I remember crying day after day (some of that was my early onset bipolar) and hating the person I was becoming: an uncertain, insecure, and erratic nobody.

My son sees a speech therapist for his speech issues and, at this point mainly, food aversions. Much of the solutions for him would probably not fit an adult. For instance, we put 4 things on a plate and he starts with one food, has to take a bite (or at least touch it or put it to his mouth just to get him used to it), and then we turn his plate and he does the same thing with the rest of the foods. We offer what he likes less on the first side.

Another thing is just to have him kiss his food and play other silly games with the food just to get him used to it. We just keep offering it as long as he will tolerate it on his plate. He is almost 6.