Counselling for Eating Disorder

[shrinknightmare]

Just wondering what sort of things a counsellor says to someone who has gone to see a counsellor for a eating disorder?

I see a shrink about grief issues, and she noticed my lack of weight, and just lectures me. She says "I am a doctor, blah blah blah blah", "Hello, can't you see what you are doing to your body blah blah blah", "I don't understand you", "Are you doing this to make me frustrated?", "I have real concerns about you".

Wasn't really helpful.

Once she asked me to get on the scales, I didn't want to, too embarassing so she got on, and I had to show her how to work the scales!!! She then weighed herself and compared it with my weight, and asked me if I thought she was overweight.

If counselling for an eating disorder is similar to this then I couldn't see it being very helpful at all. You might as well have your family lecture you.

[TDM]

i wouldnt know -- never had counselling for an eating disorder. but i suppose she's doing what she's doing because she doesnt know how else to react... she's scared. eating disorders -- to the people that watch someone else with one -- it's no fun because you're so scared for them and don't know what to do. i think that counselling for an eating disorder would be different -- if you found someone who specialised in it, i suppose. but the problem is that eating disorders... they're usually a symptom of sorts for something else that's underlying. so its really counselling for whatever's underlying it, instead of the eating disorder. and i think i'll stop now or else i'll keep blathering and i'll make less and less sense.

TDM