Hey @Jynx, thank you for making the suggestion. I know what you're referring to, because I've definitely done too much therapy in the past, when what I actually needed was to back off and let the dust settle.
That's definitely not my situation right now, though. I still don't know enough about my bulimia to manage it without frequent guidance from a specialist, and every session I'm learning something new, which makes day-to-day functioning possible. (I didn't know a lot about living with EDs before I was diagnosed with one, tbh.) And it's exhausting to unpack things in psych sessions, but it's really rewarding. I've actually reached a stage where I'm telling my psychologist things that I've never told anybody, which feels like a lot of progress.
I've never lived with this many mental illnesses and a physical disability at the same time. I need a lot of help. I won't need this much help forever (I hope), but right now I need to keep up momentum. When I have recently slowed down my mental health treatments, I haven't felt any benefit. I've just stopped functioning altogether and everything has spiralled. I really don't want to claw my way back from there again. Being less active on this forum has been one way of preventing burn-out, actually.
