Have you ever found yourself in therapy where, a few months in you find your T making proclamations about your problem that leave you wondering if they have been listening or even paying attention up to that point?

I had a session where after I described (again) my eating disordered episode (and my T specializes in EDs ) and thereafter he made an oddly placed comment, "this sounds like a severe eating disorder..." I have been seeing T for several months and this struck me as the type of comment one would make in the first appointment or two....where I provided all the same behavioral details. (Nothing has changed behavior wise, just kind of re-hashing the same this is what I do and feel when I do it). He was almost making a pronouncement as if I were telling him for the first time and he was giving me his initial take....but that's not the case, as I said.

At the time, I couldn't process fast enough why this bothered me so I asked a puzzled, "what makes you say that" and he sort of mumbled "oh just in terms of how long this has been affecting you..." Again, he is well versed in my history (or I thought he was). It felt very disingenuous and I don't know how to phrase this any better than to say it felt like he was phoning it in. I know T's have off days, that isn't the problem...it's that the comment itself feels invalidating to all the sessions I have been going in and painstakingly talking about how the eating disorder affects my life. It felt like I just went in a big circle and he has not been paying any attention at all to what I have been telling him and certainly, makes me question his sincerity on any other advice or comments he has made about my disorder.

Does this even make sense to any of you? Am I looking for reasons to doubt him or would you take issue at all with this? I've called him on BS before so I don't have a problem telling him exactly what I posted here next session, but is this a big picture problem to you or just a blip? This really, really bothers me from a trust standpoint.