Thank you for the replies!

That's the thing though. It is really hard for me to connect with a T and there are two - just two therapists on my half of the state that specialize in eating disorders. One's an hour away and super overbooked and the other I saw for about two months, a little more. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I just couldn't make it work. He kept calling my girlfriend - my friend or my roommate - despite my correcting and that on top of other issues just made it impossible.

There are no specific support groups, no other resources I've found IRL that I could utilize to supplement this T.

I went to a support group for six months before the T moderating it convinced me to go into one on one therapy with him which was my first experience ever. I saw him for just over a year before I had to move states and that was the longest I'd ever been in therapy. I, too, have trust issues and that's making me hesitate to leave this one.

The intake guy literally told me I just had had 'a really good diet' and I had to laugh. I went to that support group the first time as a way to prove to people around me that I was fine, I had no problem, I was nothing like them. Joke was on me. But it was still a diagnosis I fought against. A lot of that early therapy was just dragging me out of denial so to come full circle and be completely dismissed was ironically hilarious.

But you're right. I should have an open conversation with him and see what options or opinions he has about all this before writing him off completely. Perhaps he knows of ways to supplement I wasn't able to find online.

Shouldn't doom and gloom yet.