[cka87]

just have a question for those who have been in therapy for their ED. did it help? how did it help you? like specifically how did therapy help? I tried therapy..I say tried; I only went like 7 times and then I freaked out and quit. long story short I didn't feel like therapy was/could help (yea I'm aware I probably didn't give it the shot it deserved) and I emailed my T in between sessions and just quit.

i had planned on going to my scheduled appt and quitting from there but 3 days before my last appt my coworker told me "Cka you look like you've gained weight- it looks good now that you have more meat on your bones " which...well it just upset me to say the least. now I'm in a bad place. I feel so low. I can't even think straight. I don't want to be a part of my life anymore if that makes sense. I just want to disconnect, slink into a corner and lose weight. I feel so enormous and disgusting and fat and worthless. my T said she would be there for me if I wanted to resume treatment but I feel like a real butthole for the way I ended things. I can't imagine going back to therapy, I can't even imagine my life is worth living. I'm so fat and I can't stop eating. sorry if this post makes no sense. ultimately I wanna know --

did therapy help you? how?

[Victoria'smom]

Do you have any comorbid disorders.therapy has helped me realize that my eating disorder swings with my bipolar. my eating disorder. Pill get worse use any extreme of mood changes at all. This means when my eating. isorder gets bad I need to call my t or psychiatrist 2 look at my medication. T has help me explain to my husband that he will not win over my eating disorder because I have had it for so long.he can expect it to get worse and better depending on my mood. That as long As I am drinking then she needs to leave it up to my psychiatrist and t to take care of the eating disorder.

she handles my flip outs about about Wait and eating with ease.we only talk about the eating disorder as a secondary thing. Her main priority is too work on my other issues so that my eating disorder decreases.I am more aware of what triggers my eating disorder. So I am more careful to fight again when in the situation that would triggers my eating disorder.


I did tell her as soon as I walked in that I do not want to get rid of my eating disorder.so she asked what I do I want to work on.

[eskielover]

For me, my anorexia come from stress, depression, & it even was initially triggered by the medication Prozac.....then another time a trauma I went through.

Therapy to help me process the situations that caused the anorexia were the most important part of therapy.

The ED treatment center didn't work because they tried to cram in my head that anorexia was all about body image.....well in my case it wasn't.....but they only handle people with what is their text book reasoning for the ED & had no idea how to help through the depression & when I was told to find an ED treatment facility after going through the trauma & was dealing with PTSD, they admitted they weren't capable of treating ED caused by such things.

Therapy that works on the issues that are causing the ED are definitely the only thing that can possibly work IMO.

[spondiferous]

Therapy for my ED has been instrumental in my recovery. It sounds like you have a good t, and I think you should forgive yourself and go back and give it another try. I think sometimes we have such a skewed vision of ourselves. Your t probably just sees you as someone who needs help and is willing to help you. So I wouldn't feel too bad about it. (Well I would but you know what I mean - so much easier to give advice than take it!) Maybe just apologize for leaving things the way you did, if that'll help you feel better about it. Just my two cents. I tried my whole life to do this alone - never got anywhere til I started accepting the help of others.