u/FitnessPizzaInMyMou

Love the word tummy lol

As the title says, I’m experiencing food noise coming back for sure, but have noticed in the last few days that I am having the food noise, but then thinking “ugh but I don’t know if I’ll even want to eat that.”

Kind of interesting. I know it’s the medication causing the fullness cues, but I’m hoping that maybe I’ll be able to keep this mindset/approach to handling food noise up once I’m fully off.

Like the title says, I’d love to hear an honest take on this from those who are therapists (or clients who’ve got a lot of experience going to therapy.)

I’ve been doing therapy for almost 2 years now with one person. I like my therapist and think she knows me pretty well by now which obviously makes it easier for her to understand the things I share, etc. I’d ideally like to just keep working with her which is why I haven’t made any changes and kept it going for all this time.

I started going to deal with some specific things, most notably childhood sexual abuse and alcohol abuse, but I ended up uncovering some other stressors that needed solving along the way. My therapist genuinely helped me work through those stressors and I’m in a much better place with it. The childhood sexual abuse is what it is, not sure that can go away, but it’s been helpful to be able to share that with someone and talk about it.

Regarding the alcohol abuse, therapy hasn’t helped with that at all. I know it can’t fix everything and I’m not blaming my therapist of course. However I feel like I get really mixed messages from her. Sometimes she tells me she thinks I don’t actually need to work on my drinking and that it’s normal. Sometimes she tells me it seems like alcohol is starting to have consequences around my job, health, and personal life (when it has for a long time obviously) and that means I should change something. Overall it seems that she doesn’t think I have a drinking problem since I’m not physically dependent on alcohol, but it’s all behavioral and that’s why I’m trying therapy as opposed to rehab or something. My therapist knows that I’m very hard on myself and I also wonder if she thinks I’m over-exaggerating this as a problem due to being overly critical of myself.

I feel like I’ve made absolutely no progress there and it’s something that I’m extremely concerned about and really want to improve on. I wonder if maybe I’m not sharing the right things with her for this to be effective, or we aren’t using the right therapeutic techniques. Or maybe it’s time to look for a new therapist who can better help with those issues? It seems silly to just change after setting a strong foundation with this one, but I guess it might also be silly to keep trying the same things with no results.

Any advice from someone who has worked with substance abuse clients OR has been in therapy for it? Thanks in advance!

Has anyone tried NAC and L-Theanine? I’ve been reading a lot about these and am wanting to try them to hopefully reduce my alcohol cravings. I am trying to get my binge drinking under control. My hope is that they’ll also benefit my BED.

Just curious if anyone has tried and noticed any benefits.