eating disorders and doctor's offices
CW: eating disorder, self harm I just had my first visit with a primary care physician in over a year and a half. I was generally happy with it, though I had been stressed given the horror stories of how badly I know doctor visits can go. I just needed to establish myself with a new primary care physician, and also ask about getting back on anxiety medication that I only went off of because of health insurance changes. I had to be measured and weighed, I guess, because you always have to do that for whatever reason. I was impressed that the nurse asked me if I wanted to know what I weighed, so I could say that I don't need to know what I weigh. Maybe, just to advocate for myself, I should have said specifically that I need to *not* know what I weigh, but I didn't say that, because, even though I know my boundaries, I have a hard time expressing them given how society has told me for my whole life that my boundaries around my eating disorder are invalid. For anyone r...