I had an appointment with my therapist today, and she was talking about purging. Clearly it's been written in my notes somewhere that I have a history of self harm, and she asked me which was less damaging to my body - cutting or purging. I said cutting, because for me the effects of purging are more serious.
She then basically said that if that's the case, that when I feel like I need to be sick maybe I should self harm instead..
I can kind of see where she's coming from, but it still really confused me. I told her that, and she said that she 'wasn't advocating it, but if it's less harmful then maybe it's the better option.'
I don't really know what to think. It seems like simply replacing one very negative behaviour with a different but still very negative behaviour.
I don't plan on doing it, because for me eating is pretty much unrelated to self harm, and secondly because I really don't want to go back to something which took a long time to stop.
I was just wondering what people's opinions are on this... is it just me, or is a kind of inappropriate thing to recommend?