Plot summary
Addison feels offended when none of her co-workers have responded to her invitation to a party. Sam makes his first talk show appearance to promote his latest self-help book. Cooper counsels a young, lovesick patient and makes a pact that they both reveal their crushes to their friends. However, the boy is beaten up for revealing he is gay and Cooper consoles him. Violet is caught off guard when her ex-boyfriend's new wife admits herself as a patient and is diagnosed with a bladder infection from having too much sex.
Addison agrees to help a psychiatric patient, who everyone believes has Munchausen syndrome, and finds out that she in fact has Crohn's disease. Pete tries to treat an elderly man who keeps falling asleep unexpectedly, but he faces issues as the man doesn't believe in his kind of treatment. When Addison tells her co-workers about her frustration over the party, they tell her that they had always planned on going to it.
Credits
Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Private Practice season 1. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.