The Absence of Appetite

In my previous posts I looked at how people consciously give up food, whether this be for positive or entirely negative reasons, I explored specifically that food is missing from a person's life as they choose for it to be absent, both temporarily and permanently. But what happens when a person does not choose to stop eating? When they feel so distressed that eating becomes difficult and neglected? When they feel so overwhelmed that eating stops being important to them and they somewhat forget to eat? This is sadly a common occurrence when someone is grieving, particularly to those who have lost a significant person in their life like a mother or father. Talking to my mother about the unexpected passing away of my grandma, almost ten years ago now, she told me that eating was difficult during this time. She felt so numb that eating was not a major concern to her personally and she barely ate for a couple of weeks whilst she took care of her ...