Matt called to ask if I could help with his diet. As he
described it, he only ate things which bled. He meant things which had bled.
Just as well. For a minute there I thought he was a vampire.
But no. Matt is a Maths teacher who, for some reason, could
not eat vegetables, or fruit or salads or nuts and especially not mushrooms. If
a bit of carrot was deeply hidden in a highly spiced curry such that he didn’t
notice its presence, he might eat it and not vomit. Otherwise he was pretty much
limited to meat.
Unless you’ve experienced something similar it is hard to
imagine how socially debilitating this is. First, all Matt’s friends thought
he was nuts. They never said that but Matt knew anyone who couldn’t eat
anything but meat must be nuts so he assumed everyone else thought so too.
Then there were the difficulties inherent in socializing
with his vegetarian friends.
Going to restaurants was a nightmare. In fact, it was a
non-starter. At school he ate in a corner and tried to conceal his unbalanced
diet, never knowing who knew or what they said about him at the other tables.
He had no knowledge of why he was like this but suspected
it had something to do with his childhood. On the couch we did a regression with
his subconscious indicating ‘yes’ and ‘no’ answers by moving fingers it
had chosen for the job (technically these are called ideo-motor responses - IMRs).
We were quickly able to pinpoint an event when he was two that led to his
peculiar eating habit. Sometimes a subconscious mind will tell its host what
happened and sometimes it will tell me but not allow the patient conscious
awareness. Matt’s subconscious didn’t want anyone to know. But it agreed the
device was no longer necessary and couldn’t wait to give it up.
Matt had the alivest IMR digits I have ever seen, bouncing
off his thighs even before I’d finished asking the questions.
The first session didn’t clear everything though his food
range expanded enormously. In the second session we found he needed to forgive
himself for causing his mum so much upset with his odd appetite.
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