Strange anxiety and food attacks, what to do?

Hi, I am a 41-year-old mother, I turn to you for help in a problem that is becoming quite old for me. I have been experiencing sudden food-related anxiety attacks for some time now. I express myself better, when I think about what to cook for lunch and dinner I panic, I feel like I’m suffocating until I can find what I’m going to cook. It is a disorder that makes me sick, also because it affects my private life. I am always nervous, I treat my children and my husband badly, but most of all I feel bad. I can only calm down by taking relaxing drops and when I can identify what to prepare to eat. At first I didn’t realize it, but now it’s becoming a real problem that is ruining my life. Please give me some advice. Thank you

Health Answers

Good morning dear mom, on tiptoe I allow myself to point out some tricks that could help you: together with your family you create a food diary in which you will decide together what to eat in the 4 main meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner and at least one snack) . A weekly or biweekly plan and another with the complete list of foods to buy at the supermarket will be useful. You could decide together once a week or more than one, to dedicate a few minutes to planning this sort of agenda, so that she can already be organized and face the day with these certainties. I hope I have helped her. Dr. Rosa Flocco, Nutritionist Biologist and Neurobiologist.

Good evening dear, what I would like to advise you is to investigate the correct functioning of the thyroid activity and of the hormonal picture in general. At the same time I would also ask myself with the help of a professional if necessary, if there is an inner discomfort that pushes her towards this unbalanced and not to be underestimated behavior. best regards Cinzia Zedda naturopath – reflexology, iridology – meditation – mindfulness

Hi, since anxiety is related to the time of preparing meals and she presents herself first of all as ‘mom’, the one who often takes care of family meals in our culture, I would ask myself what happened in the first place. past: has anyone complained about what they have prepared? a child with no appetite ?; and secondly what that fact meant for her. In case you want to deepen the discussion, I am available to do so, even in other contexts. good day Simona Rosati