I chickened out and couldn't tell them when I went to the doctor. I'm a student and I go to the university health center so I don't really have a choice who I see and the doctor I'm assigned to made some rude comments about my scars from self injury so it's hard to bring it up with him. I can't switch doctors either unless I want to pay out of pocket and I don't have the money. I went in for a sinus infection on Saturday to their walk in clinic and saw someone else but didn't have the heart to mention it. I have to go to their orthopedist for my ankle next week so maybe I'll tell them or the women's clinic. I had been in denial about my eating problems for a while- I knew some people with anorexia and bulimia and always thought it as their issues not mine- but when I went for my annual women's exam they kept asking me if I had an eating disorder so I think they already know. I wasn't diagnosed yet but I ended up going to my therapist the next day and she told me I was anorexic. I don't know... maybe I'll go to the women's clinic because they were more sympathetic. It's embarrassing enough that I have all these obvious scars all over my body (they're literally everywhere so unless I wear pants and a turtleneck every day it's going to show and from some of them it's very obvious it was a suicide attempt not just self injury) so it's hard to admit that yes- I have an eating disorder too. I feel like a right mess right now.
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