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Hello there! Lately I noticed some really confusing changes in my cat's behavior. She usually is really sweet and loves being petted and played with but a few weeks ago she started acting really weird. Especially when it comes to food, she had a problem with food in the past (she's only 8 months old) when she stopped eating all of a sudden, she had intestinal worms, but I took her to the vet and everything was ok after. Now she has a problem with eating again, but this time it's not intestinal worms, it seems to be something psychologically from what I can tell. Whenever I give her food she starts looking all over her surroundings and acts like she is in distress for some reason, she looks really on edge and won't touch her food, she smells it for a bit, take a few bites and then leave the bowl. I thought that maybe she got sick of her usual food so I changed it, but the results were the same. Besides this, she has other moments when, again, she looks really stressed out or scared, and every little noise would make her jump and run to hide. I really don't know what to do anymore, I always try to comfort her, let her know that I am there to protect her and that everything is going to be ok and by that I mean that I take her in my arms like a baby and pet her for a while. While I do this she acts like her usual self, but after I let her go she goes back to being on edge.. Another reason that makes me believe it's something psychological is that her mother, a few months after giving birth kind of "lost it". She has the same symptoms, only they are 10 times worse. She is on edge 24/7 and won't let anything near her (cats or people), when other animals are approaching her she would fight them and when people come near her she starts hissing and spitting everywhere and sometimes she has the instinct to bite. Like my little one, before the pregnancy she was really sweet and loving. Does anybody have any idea what this could be? I'm really confused and I really want to help my kitty.