Just wondering if anyone has any coping strategies for anxiety related to food. Tomorrow I have to go to a restaurant for lunch with my partners family. It’s a set menu and 5 course meal. I never eat different foods or food like seafood or fish or nuts that people are regularly allergic too as I have a fear of having a reaction. I’ve seen someone at a restaurant have a reaction before and it’s really stuck in my head. I know tomorrow the menu has lots of seafood on it and I’m going to have to eat it. I have major anxiety about this. When I’ve had to eat salmon in the past the second I put it in my mouth I panic and stress out. I don’t want to cause a big scene when I’m out tomorrow but I just know I’m going to panic.
And of course recognising your panic attack signs! I know when I start to feel numb and disoriented, that it’s anxiety. I used to record my anxiety symptoms in a diary where I began to learn what my triggers are, and how my body reacts to these triggers
