I had the same treatment providers for four years, I am only 25 and have only been sick since I was 19. Before that I had an eating disorder team. I am healed of my eating disorder, so that is why I left them. My entire team works together. They are an ACT team. They work in the same building. They have meetings together everyday. They have offices beside each other. They have the same boss, whose office is also in the same small complex. Let me tell you some stuff that I have noticed from this team and maybe you will understand why I don't respect them. I respect their doctor greatly, and it's why I held on for so long.

1. They take advantage of clients. Allowing manic bipolar patients to clean their office and asking overly pleasing clients to run to the corner store for them.

2. They make fun of diagnosis. They once took bets with REAL money, on how much pizza a man could eat on his birthday, when they took him to a all you can eat pizza buffet, when the man has a serious eating disorder.

3. They break confidentiality. I was told on numerous occasions of other patients issues. About patients running away, going into hospitals, refusing meds, etc. They would use initials to talk about other people's issues, once announcing to the entire office, with patients in it, that I was stupid for being willing to give my kidney to a dying friend. They thought I wasn't in the office. He ended up dying, because they wouldn't let me and I thought at the time that they owned me. It wasn't that hard to figure out the initials.

4. They hired drug thieves on two occasions. They hired two women who stole drugs from our bins. One did it for years.

5. Their therapist had issues. Counter transference issues and in the end, instead of dealing with them, he turned it around and blamed me, but he's still the only normal one in the bunch.

6. My mom even dislikes this team and wants me out of it as soon as possible.

7. They've lied to me on numerous occasions about what I'm allowed to do outside of them. For example I tried to get a psych rehab worker and I was told "you don't need that! you have that here!" When I told the psych rehab worker that she was really upset, because I am definitely allowed to have both and none of their workers have time to do what psych rehab workers do.

8. They are controlling. Mostly the team leader. Even after being cleared by two psychiatrists, she insisted I stay in a hospital and even called my mom in a rush telling her that I would die if I left. So my mom came to the meeting in a heap of tears, believing this and no matter how many times I tried to tell my mom it was okay, she believed the team leader. She doesn't anymore though, and she's upset now that she manipulated her feelings.

And yes I have had to recently learn to manipulate my team, so I don't end up hurt over and over. But I am almost done with them. I don't like manipulation. It reminds me of being young and doing that to adults to cover up secrets.

I think you are used to a team being separate and so you are wondering how so many professionals suck. But mostly it's the team leader who sucks. If the people under her were outside of her, they would be absolute fine providers. That's why my doctor is okay, because he's not under her. But once the leader is effected it trickles down to the other team members.

What's seriously wrong is them. I have no respect for people who act like this.