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Eating Issues - How To Talk About It

  • 17-09-2018 04:18PM
    #1
    jungatheart
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    I've been seeing a therapist for a few years now, as I was in an abusive relationship [I recently left him after 15 years !], have a difficult family situation [they are emotionally quite abusive] and in the way that therapy works, everything unravelled - how I felt about work, everything I never thought of. Then this weekend, I'm at home and I've had dinner and I'm not at all hungry but I'm starting to feel a bit upset as something made me think of my ex and how he behaved and I wanted chocolate, sugar, anything sweet, despite how full I was. I'm sure I do this all the time as I've struggled with my weight and I'm familar with what I can this empty-full feeling but this was the first time I saw it. Now I couldn't stop myself and had three squares of chocolate and just thought this isn't what I want, a change from eating the whole bar and then feeling so awful and ashamed. So I'm seeing my therapist on wednesday and I really want to tell him about this but I feel so ashamed about it 'cause I've never talked about it before and he's a great therapist, we've talked about so much and he's never judged or flinched in my opinion. I'm not looking for therapy advise, just wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience. I'm looking for support groups as well but everything seems to be in Dublin.


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    The Black Oil
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  • #3
    wiggle16
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    You don't have anything to be ashamed about at all.

    Your therapist will have been told all sorts of things over the years. Whether or not you have an eating disorder, your therapist will almost certainly have had patients with eating disorders in the past, so that's a non-runner. S/he's not going to judge you, there's nothing to judge.

    Besides.... 3 squares of chocolate. Obviously it depends on your diet and tastes and appetite but it does sound like you are attaching great significance to a very small amount of food, and you were able to regulate your behaviour and stop at 3 squares. Issues with weight or not, it doesn't sound like you have an unhealthy relationship with food at all. I'd eat a pound of chocolate a day if I could get away with it.


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