[jennie]

In counseling, do you talk about your eating disorder?

[inkblot]

Actually, I don't talk about. He asks me about it--how much I am eating, etc. I do tell him, but I sometimes don't give all the information. I just came from dropping off a note at his office tonight. I was honest. I mentioned taking "goodies", and did admit what one of those pills was in type, and how much of that particular one I have had today alone. It's like what the hell right now. I told him in the note how much I love my bad habits! The next sentence was I hate them.

[mortimer]

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[m_rlopez]

I would like to, but the psych claims that she has no time. She only asks me about the moods and my drugs.

[Quay]

I only recently started talking about it. I used to talk to my nutritionist about it all. He was kind of a counselor also, at least it seemed that way. I told him stuff I'd only ever told my T before, and I told him about my eating problems. My nutritionist moved away about 6 weeks ago. I wish I could still talk to him, but at least it forces me to talk to my T about it now. Maybe he'll be more help than the nutritionist was.

[Hope4me2]

I talk to my T about it sometimes but he leaves it up to me to bring it up....but I would like to talk about it more but dont want him to think I am talking about it to get attention...UGH

[kris85]

i don't really talk about it a lot. i don't see the point of bringing it up anymore, i already know what she is going to say most of the time anyway.

[eskielover]

My psychologist feels that my eating situation is very important & we were discussing it usually a little every time. She also has horses & has a dressage trainer & shows at the same level as I do, so she is always telling me how important it is to watch my weight. She knows that I have ended up in the ER at least 3 times over the last 1 1/2 months because of the fact that I have no reserve to deal with the dehydration that comes with being in our desert sun. She was my psychologist the last time I was dealing with anorexia & had been in an eating disorders hospital for a month the last time.....but she also realizes that there is usually a cause for the initial weight loss....last time it was prozac & wellbutrin....this time, exhaustion, stress, trauma, & my Mothers death. At least she is understanding about it but knows that there is also something in my mind that has the need to lose weight too...those are the issues that we talk about too.

Debbie

Yes my therapist knows I have had anerexia in the past and I slipped back into it when a caseworker told me I was fat (I was in the wieght range of 5 pounds heaver that the physicians weight chart) I lost weight and landed at 108 pounds when on the charts I should be 145 pounds. long story short somehow at some point in my life a bacteria called Heliobacter Pyloria took up residence in my stomach lining and at this point it got ativated and created Mucosis Associated Lymphocytic Tissue Lymphoma (MALT Lymphoma=cancer). part of my treatment was gaining weight up to at least 150-160 so that if I needed chemo and radiation after the antibiotics I had the weight to hold and see me through the treatment and side effects. After cancer treatment (the cancer is now in remission) my stomach is very sensitve to what it will digest and how much. After months of trial and error My doctor and I finally found the right diet plan for me and my stomach - The diabetic 2 diet. basically its eating very small quantites of food 9 times a day. This diet plan allowed me to once again lose the extra weight and keep all counts up where they should be. I absolutely hate eating 9 times a day and I know I would fall right back into eating only once a day if it wasn't for my therapist and doctor monitoring the situation. Every sesion my therapist checks in with me as to if I am still following the diet. Sometimes she comes right out and asks me, other times it naturally comes up when answering her other questions. I have check ups with my doctor every 6 months. he checks with me and blood work to make sure I am following the diet plan.

[shatteredmirror]

yea, we keep a daily eating journal that is discussed.

[bipolar_bear]

I mostly talk to my dietician about my eating disorder and wieght. My therapist and I talk about it when it gets out of hand. I journal daily and it is one of the subjects which my therapist asks that I address.

[jennie]

[razeljenny]

I wish I could be that honest, yet, this is a better place to share on it. There is no right and wrong way to treat it. Taking laxitives and throwing up aren't good for you and you know it and feel bad enough anyway. It is gross to talk about in a session, so it is avoided for that reason. It is like stuff that your mom should have warned you off, like treating acne or antipresparents. Anyway it is serving a purpose by eliminating calories, just a crummy way to accomplish someithng. So just avoiding foods that you can't tolerate is one GREAT LOVELY STINKING IDEA, resist that food like herpies!!! Well honeies, I hope you learned something about my problems of it, (I live with it since I was 14 and I am 46 years old and TODAY, JUST FOR TODAY- IN RECOVERY. J U S T FOR T O D A Y sisters- and bros. love Raze

You will get there. I wasn't always this honest. What got me there was that I wanted to have a child and if I didn't take care of my eating disorder then I would not have been able to carry my child for 40 weeks of pregnancy. So when my child father and I were planning my child one of the things on my list of necessities was being in touch with a county nurse / nutricionalist, the WIC program and frequently saw my physician for blood work and so on to ensure all my counts were up where it was safe for my child to grow. 9 months of holding myself accountable and all the care and planning that went into insuring my childs wellbeing while we shared this body became habit. That doesn't mean I don't slip back into that thinking ever once and a while but the one thing I don't do is hide it anymore. As a matter of fact I started slipping back into that frame of mind two weeks ago. I had gone a couple days of only eating once a day when I found myself in therapy and somehow the topic of eating came up. I don't know exactly how it came up I just know that things have been here there and everywhere to the point where I was doing alot of daytime sleeping and up at night and so my eating schedule it totally off and then sitting in therapy working on my art project and I admitted to my therapist I have been eating only once a day lately. Well just telling her that made me want to hold myself accountable and so I found some scales and weighed myself and found I had gained 20 pounds this winter. Im not too worried about it, I always gain anywhere between 10-30 pounds in the winter anyway because I am less active during the rainy season. I pulled out my Diabetic 2 diet plan and sat down and made my menu for the month for nine meals a day. for the past week I have been back on my diet of eating 9 times a day and 64 ounces of water a day for the past two weeks and biking for a half hour a day trying to work back up to my hour a day biking (or walking) schedule and have lost 5 pounds.

I know that if I had not told my therapist that I was only eating once a day two weeks ago I probably would have continued to only eat once a day. I know my therapist isn't going to rag on me about it. She's not that way.

Anyway one day you will find that something that says its time to stop not just of one hour and so on but forever.

Hang in there

[Quay]

My t is willing to talk about it, but he didn't want to be constantly forcing the issue on me, so he insisted I see a nutritionist as well. She specializes in people with eating disorders and does CBT, as well. Sometimes it's a little much, cause I feel like I have 2 therapists. I don't feel like I want to go into stuff with her when I'm already working on it with my regular t. When I talked to him about it today however, he said you do have to discuss the emotions around the food. She has helped a lot, so I guess I'll buckle down and put forth the effort. Least I think so right now. We'll see how it goes.

Thanks for the opportunity to vent.
Quay