My DD 10 has recently been "losing her appetite" because she seems afraid of eating poisonous plants and other poisoned things. It started with mushrooms. She liked mushrooms quite a bit until she decided that the ones I always buy from the store look like some poisonous mushroom she saw somewhere (it might have been a video game, I'm not even sure if it is a real mushroom). We grow a lot of vegetables ourselves. Ever since my husband started watching videos on edible weeds and identifying all the edible weeds in our yard, DD has been freaked out that she might be eating poisonous plants. We only eat vegetables that we have actually planted, not random weeds. Logic doesn't seem to work for her. We can explain that the mushroom farmers are very careful about keeping out any poisonous mushrooms and that we are eating only plants we have planted ourselves. "How do you know?" is her common refrain. I can only reassure her so much, she is so smart and imaginative that she can come up with any scenario to fuel her anxiety over the issue.
This is one example, there have been other similar issues in the past but they are usually short-lived and we can move past them reasonably enough. Maybe it's just stress. She is still in school but is so ready for summer break. She's on a year-round schedule and has one more week left. She hasn't been getting enough sleep either, it's hard to get to bed on time this time of year. I'm trying to get through the end of school and see if it improves but any advice would be greatly appreciated.
