New therapist

The eating disorder people were good when it came to me, as they know how if with it active and I was left alone without the support I would let it go free and then the weight would fall off. So they decided that until I could start the therapy to help me deal with grief in a sensible way, not self-medicating. They would keep me on their books and if I had any issues I could talk about them and if not they would check in to see if I was ok.

Then I got the date for the first session of what should have been grief therapy, the first session was the therapist asking questions about myself, my conditions and what I was looking for. So I was honest and told her, then she asked about the inquest and if the verdict was important to me which I said yes it was. This then made her mind up that she would not do any work on grief because the inquest hasn’t happened.

Instead, she decided that there were other areas that could use some help from therapy and this is what we could work on, addressing some of the things where I still have not great methods for dealing with them. Then by the end of that session, she came to the conclusion that I have control issues; now anyone who knows anything about mental health knows that anorexia and control issues go together in most presentations.

So this was the point that I suggested that she looked through my notes from previous therapy…