Got attacked by someone on the bipolar board for telling someone who kept repeating ED stuff to take it to the ED board...it doesn't really belong on BP and it is triggering for people who are BP with EDs.

Saw a new T today. I haven't actually been in therapy awhile, not for ED's or anything else like bipolar racing thoughts or needing better coping mechanisms outside of exercise. She seems nice and said she'd take me on. Granted, I did tell her I was only going to therapy at this moment in time because of my CPS case, but I would have tried again eventually. I always do. It's a pattern. I guess it's been around a year, year & a half since I tried therapy. The best news is the new T practices basically a 5 minute drive from my house, which is so much easier than having to drive 30-45 minutes every week to see a T, especially if driving makes you anxious & causes you to have panic attacks. I never knew there was a T so close, but she borrows space at a storefront in a nearby shopping center, which explains how I never knew there was a practicing T nearby.

We did touch some on the ED stuff. I was holding my breath there because once some T's hear ED, they are done with you and don't want to take you on, but she said she's fine working with me and uses CBT mostly. I have a lot of issues to work on; needing better coping mechanisms for stress instead of just exercise, bipolar racing thoughts, self-esteem that's in the ditch, having no friends, the ED (which I think goes back to child molestation as well as being raised by an angry, overbearing father). Made an appointment for next week, and I hope she'll work out.