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Originally Posted by BlueMoon6
Are you saying the attention to food/weight in therapy takes the attention away from deeper issues?
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I guess I am very fortunate that I have the support of a clinic that deals only with eating disorders, that is totally separate from my one on one therapy. So I very seldom talk about my ED with my therapist, and we are free to get as deep as I choose to. I wonder if there is anything like that clinic where you are? It is also extremely helpful to have the support of the other patients at the clinic. It helps so much to just hear from people who struggle with the same body image issues and fears and also reduces my shame about the whole thing.
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Originally Posted by BlueMoon6
And if I struggle and gain a few pounds and eat, I feel bad, stupid, as if I have done the wrong thing and want to go to my bed and pull the covers over my head and not get up. And then I will immediately lose it again anyway. If I woke up (as I said to my t) at 120 or 125 I would be OK with it. I just cant gain the 15 lbs to get there. I cant eat my way there. And I continue to lose b/c I am too afraid to eat.
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In the time between sessions, which can be where much of the actual work of therapy happens, it is helpful not to be caught in the cycle of thinking you are describing here. Your mind is freed up to contemplate other things. I really hope you check out places that deal specifically with eating disorders, because just talking about food, being nagged about it, or having someone trying to scare you into eating is not going to help. At the clinic I attend there is a very gradual but very focussed process of increasing the amount one eats. That makes it easier to learn to tolerate food.
Anyhow, I hope you manage to connect with some truly helpful people in these interviews.
