help if you can answer this?

[emmab]

just saw psychiatrist. all went well until i told him i was increasing food and had had breakfast for first time today. he said it is dangerous to start "refeeding" and that if i was going to do that he would put me in local psychiatric unit for monitoring
for many reasons the psych unit is totally inappropriate for me or anyone with ED here.
i am prob going to to wellington IP for two weeks when i can fit it in re bedspace and family commitments.
surely in the meantime i HAVE to start gaining, and thought incresing food was a POSITIVE RECOVERY step
then he said "i dont know how important breakfast really is" ***!!!

good thing is that instead of thinking "cool i can skip breakfast and keep restricting" i came away thinking "you ******** I have to get healthy, I want to be WELL and out of danger zone re low weight" then came home and had a sandwich!!!

surely increasing a bit is safe! is he a twit or am i?

 

[bumblebee62331]

Hmm. I have never been to a T or N about this but he sounds like he doesn't know what he is talking about! Increasing your food intake is a good thing! If you are making it healthy food, keeping it down and doing it for the right reasons. Breakfast is very important (hypocritical of me, I know) but I think you are totally doing the right thing here. And it is so good that you didn't take his thinking and run with it - you stuck to your want to recover and kept focused on that.

Maybe you should see a different P ... someone who has dealt with ED's before, because this guy sounds like he has no idea.

However, someone who has been through the P, N or T process - please correct me if I am wrong.

 

[reverie_maiden]

The guy sounds like a dork to me. Trust me, eating is a good thing. I have had an ED before, so yes any eating is a good thing!

 

[Soulwings]

Oof.
He sounds a bit like a jerk.

Eating is a good thing. Its a good thing that youre making steps to recovery by yourself, without having been hospitalised etc.

I can sort of see how "refeeding" could be dangerous - I mean, for me at times its "all or nothing", and if you go from majorly restricting to majorly bingeing, then you could do your body some harm.

But if youre not doing that, I see no problems whatsoever.
Good job and good luck

And I say find a new psych.