You've been in treatment too long if…
28 May 2009
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(in no particular order)
- You measure the cost of things in nutrition appointments (ex: That shirt is one nutrition appointment. These shoes are worth two appointments).
- You start dressing like your professionals (or maybe, they starts dressing like you…)
- “Treatment” is a recurring event with no end date on your calendar.
- You’ve never needed to purchase “Eating in the Light of the Moon” because at some point you have been given a photocopy of every chapter.
- In group, no one sits in your seat, even when you’re not there (because you’ve been sitting there since last year).
- The group therapist wishes you would just finish treatment already so that she could start recycling therapy topics.
- You remember when some of the current therapists were interns.
- You’ve modified the standard food log template to create your own (improved, of course)
- Your therapist notices when you buy a new outfit (since she’s seen all of your other clothing).
- When considering changing jobs, the new company’s mental health insurance is a deciding factor.
I am not guilty of all of these…. but more than a few.
totally funny. and yes, i’m guilty.
Haha. I like that. Very nice.
Hah, I love it.
I have to say I thought it was more pathetic when my *dentist* noticed when I’d gotten a hair cut or worn something different… there was a few months after I stopped purging that I felt like I was at her office every week until we finally got all the ‘quadrants’ repaired & all the crowns done.
And seriously?! How could you NOT consider the value of the insurance where you’re transferring jobs/schools?
I had a therapist who said that one of her patients had a DBT diary card as her desktop background. That’s taking the whole treatment embracing thing a bit too far, no?
PS: Utterly unrelated, but have you watched in treatment? I know you blog about some treatment type TV shows and was wondering if you’d seen it. I’m kinda addicted to it, which may or may not be related to the impending doom of final exams/procrastination.
Haha, I love those!
To kind of add…you actually think about what you are going to wear b/c you know she/he has seen you in so many of the same thing and don’t want them to think you wear the same thing everyday!
Too funny. Def. what I needed to read today!
Hi there, Laura!
I’m trying to post again…
Laughed and loved the “Grey Thinking” humor!
Especially the food journal one-guilty!!!
OK, here goes…
Lisa
Thanks, everyone!
chylo – You were the second person to recommend “In Treatment” to me, and I am already totally hooked! You will definitely see posts about it in the future. I have spent too much time at my dentist’s as well…
imaginenamaste – I’ve gone through periods of writing down what I wear on treatment days, so that I don’t wear it the next time (or time after)!
I have tried to find reasson to convince others that I need to get out of treatment. I wonder if these would work? Just kidding, just point out that I need to work at it a bit harder.