
Eating Disorders Support Group
Eating disorders are marked by an obsessive need to control the intake and/or purging of food. This community is dedicated to those struggling on the road to recovery. Join to discuss your experience with others and find support. Get advice, ask questions, and meet others who are going through similar struggles.
If you need to weighed it should be a medical doctor and then you can stand on the scale backwards and tell him you don't want to know.
If I were you I would look for a different therapist.
Getting well from an ED has nothing really to do with weight- a real psychotherapist can tell you this. Ask that you not be weighed for awhile while you work on your mental stability. I know that my doctor's understand my true motivation behind not being weighed, and they will generally trust me to this.
You're 20. There is no making you.
They can write a nasty note about it in your file. Which you can later oppose and say, "These are the following reasons I felt it was not in my best interest to be weighed."
But there is no making you.
If you are in a locked mental health facility, then maybe they can forcibly weigh you. Other than that... not a chance. It is about what is within your rights as a patient.
Be aware, however, that should you start refusing to be weighed, some therapists/doctors might start refusing to treat you. That's what is within their rights as treatment providers.
i do not think it's anyone's business (unless i am really sick, which i'm not now).
i'm supposed to go to a dr. once a month, or something..as a part of the ED program i'm in now, but i told them i'm keeping track of my weight, myself.
i have no reason to lie about my weight, and i've come to a point where it doesn't freak me out to see it..
i think the only reason they would weigh you, is to make sure you aren't losing a large amount of weight.
if nothing else, they should only weigh you once a month, or once every few months.
one of the things that bothers me is that id rather no one know my weight but if sumone has to know id rather me thenthe therapist i couldnt bear it if he knew and i didnt!!!!antone else feel like that?x