After doing a bit of research online I came across pages and forums linked to Neo-Food Phobia concerned with Selective Eating Disorder or SED. The more I read about this condition the more I feel this is a more accurate description of my problem, particularly as some descriptions included sufferers being particular with brands and how food is prepared, as well as texture and smells. This is very me, however unless I get re-diagnosed I cannot go too far down this route, but hopefully my GP will put me on the path where I may get re-categorised as having SED (although it does appear to be the same thing with a new name!).
For now here is a description of SED taken from http://treatmentsforthemind.co.uk/selective-eating-disorder-sed
"SED is sometimes also labelled as neo-phobia (or a fear of the new), although I feel this phrase is misleading as most of the clients seen will only tend to have a phobia with certain new foods and nothing else. SED is a true phobia that just happens to be associated with foods rather than animals, objects or processes. As such, it is not mere ‘fussy eating’ which tends to just be a conservative stage during most children’s development. Fussy eaters are often merely picky or play on the preferential treatment or special attention they get, but they are not phobic! . Fussy eating therefore does not involve a phobia, so SED often gets overlooked and misdiagnosed by doctors and therapists, as they confuse one with the other. In simple terms due to an event or phase in the past, pain has been associated with certain foods and the system refuses to venture past it’s safe foods. The more this situation persists, the greater the belief that one is ‘unable’ to then eat new foods because of the lack of past historical successes. Fortunately speedy help is at hand".
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