French fries - a lifestyle for 15 years!

Food phobia woman who lived on nothing but French Fries was hypnotised into eating her first proper meal after 15 years.

A woman who lived on a diet of chips since the age of five has finally eaten a proper meal after being HYPNOTISED to overcome her fear of other foods.

Hanna Little is now 20 years old and she has had chips every day, for the past 15 years, due to developing an eating disorder which made her feel sick, if she tried to eat any other food.

Hanna kept passing out because of her limited diet, after starting a job as a factory worker. That was the moment she decided to take action.

After just one hypnotherapy session, she managed to overcome her demons by eating a pizza - which she says has now become her favourite food.

Hanna is from Truro, Cornwall. She said: "Different foods terrified me, it made me physically sick and anxious and I never knew how I would react. I would go to parties, picnics and barbecues with my friends but i would never be able to eat anything. I think I can eat chips because they're just plain - it was the idea of different flavours mixing together which really freaked me out. I could manage a slice of dry toast for breakfast, but lunch and dinner every day always had to be chips".

Her food phobia meant she had to say no on having meals with her friends, plus she faked food allergies to get out of eating proper meals.

She said: "When I was old enough to date I went to my boyfriend's house for dinner but I hadn't told him about my SED. His mum made me an incredible pasta bake meal and I couldn't eat a bite of it - I pretended that I was allergic to tomato sauce - it was so embarrassing. Everyone I spoke to had no idea what it was and just thought I was odd".

Her psychologist - Felix Economakis - said: "SED is usually caused by a trauma associated with food - it is often something that has happened as a baby that the patient has no conscious memory of. The fear of food stems from this trauma and the anxiety associated with it. By unlocking the subconscious I can get the patient to process the past and learn to let go of the fear. The hypnosis process takes just over an hour and at the end of the session Hanna was able to try several types of new food without anxiety".