Ack. My T is HORRIBLE about ED stuff. Horrible, horrible.

When I was restricting food at one point, I felt trapped, like I couldn't find my way out. T literally sat and gave me a lecture about what to eat. "for breakfast, eat this or this or this. Then have a snack and eat this or this....". I kept interrupting him and he kept talking OVER me with his food list. WTH?

He told me he isn't good with eating disorders, and that he might do a continuing ed thing. And then when I asked him later if he would do the continuing ed thing, he said "no, because, honestly, i really don't want to".

I just stopped talking to him about ED stuff, but continued the work of therapy. For me, it ended up being one of those gray areas...he IS a good T, someone I want to work with AND he's terrible at directly addressing ED stuff. Both are true.

Somehow, through doing the other work in therapy, the ED stuff has slowly, slowly gone away, along with my other bad coping methods. I think T trusts that if we work on the internal stuff that creates the need for the bad coping methods, that they will go away on their own. In the end, I guess that's kind of how it worked for me.

When does he come back from vacation?