So I have been seeing this therapist now for almost 5 months. I had never been in therapy before, and when I first made the appointment, all I wanted was to get rid of my binge eating b/c it was really controlling my life. I have had REALLY unhealthy eating habits my whole life, from not eating for days to b/p, etc. but at that stage it had basically evolved into me binging and then taking ADD meds to control the urge to binge. Just very unhealthy, and when I went in to see her, I just wanted to fix the problem. I had absolutely no idea I would become so attached to my therapist; it had not even entered my mind.
Five months later, I have made remarkable progress. I am eating so healthy and losing weight and am off the ADD meds, and last session my T was telling me how much progress I had made and that I was reaching my goals. But instead of making me happy, this made me sad. Does this mean she is planning to stop seeing me? Some sessions we do not talk about food at all, and just talk about my life, especially as it has been pretty stressful lately. We have also touched on some other issues as well, but sometimes I feel that she does not know how to handle those other issues quite as well as the eating ones (which makes sense, b/c EDs are her specialty.) I am really quite attached to her; I even made her an oil painting a couple weeks ago, and when I gave it to her I think she almost cried. Anyways, when she mentions that I am doing very well maintaining my eating under stressful conditions, which is a good sign for longevity of maintaing my new habits, or like today, when she said that I was reaching my goals, I get sad. Especially today when she was praised me a lot, and I didn't look all that happy, and she said something like "You are happy about this, right?" and of course I am happy, and so grateful to her, but I don't want therapy to end. I would really miss her and be really hurt if she said, "OK, well we are going to start cutting back and then no more therapy."
What do you guys think? I think the most obvious thing to do is ask her how these things go. Like if I have reached my eating/weight goals, then is that all she can help me with? Ugghhhh, IDK I am so confused!! Feedback would be awesome!