Husband Panicking over eating

[rainacorn]

Hi
So didn’t know where to really put this but my husband has recently developed a thing where he is petrified to eat anything that has a skin. Things like kidney beans chickpeas baked bean. He has started to avoid them all because he has this huge fear that the skin of a food is going to get stuck by his tonsils and then he is gonna throw up.
It all started when we had a kidney bean chillie for dinner and skin of the bean got stuck since then all he will eat is like soup and when he does eat something like rice or a proper dinner he will eat some then panic after thinking it’s gonna stick there.

Anyone have any idea what this could be? I don’t know if it’s a phobia that’s started but he really wants to eat normal but panicked himself every time ????

Thanks for any help

He needs to see his gp who can refer him to get the help he needs. It's a form of ptsd

I once choked in a restaurant. It was really scary For years afterwards it affected my eating. I'd have to eat really slowly and wash every mouthful down with water. Even now, if I focus my attention too much on chewing and swallowing, I forget how to swallow if anyone in eating with talks with their mouthful or coughs/laughs while eating I panic. It's horrible.

I've read here that CBT can help, would he consider that? It's a horrible thing because you have to eat, there's no avoiding it, yet the dread you feel around food is awful.

yes - this is really connected with psychology, I often have this, when I eat something and I have a stomach ache afterwards, I avoid this food. there are 3 options - go to a psychologist, figure out on your own that it's not scary - read medical literature, can convince you as a wife, 3 - avoid these products further (but the list may grow further).
I wish you all the best! and the main thing is not to get hung up on it!

That's sucks for him. A friend who choked as a little girl had something similar. She invented loads of "allergies" to avoid the foods she was phobic of. Needless to say she got very thin indeed

I didn't get the whole choking thing, until last year when I inhaled some pasta and found myself in the middle of the kitchen signaling for stbexh to slap me on the back (he has a crap arm and completely faed to use enough force).
Since then even the tiniest bit is food to touch the back of my mouth sends waves of fear through me. In the last couple of weeks I've started to have low grade pa ic attacks after meals, it's just occurred to me the two could be connected, I thought it just 6 months of close confinement with my family!