My wife is taking care of my daughter. Going by myself would have been both much more expensive, since she’s paying for my stay, and, despite her being crazy and giving me a lot of problems, it’s always helpful to have another person around to ask questions you didn’t think of.
And an aversion and phobia are practically the same, i.e. it’s “i don’t like it” instead of a physical medical issue.
I think I’ll listen to a behavioral therapist in the best hospital in the country over a random person on Lemmy who doesn’t know anything about parasympathetic nerve system GI behavioral issues. She stated very clearly that it was not a phobia when asked explicitly if it was. I’m guessing she would know better than you, especially since she had my entire medical history, all of my clinical notes, and spent about an hour talking to me before discussing this sort of thing with me.
But hey, if you know so much, how about you tell me how I’m supposed to start eating again? Let me guess- just do it. Just like how people with clinical depression need to smile more.