not the easy way
#mental-health 2025-03-15
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Highlights from this day
- warsaw_vial — how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious 23:34
- identity_shift — the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment, thats one data point 23:36
- VialBot — Reminder for warsaw_vial: dose day is today. Set 3 days ago. 23:42
- gradient_greg — if you are struggling in a way this channel cannot hold, please talk to a professional. we are not a crisis service and we know it, ill dig out the number 23:46
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
glad youre back
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody, someone check my working
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
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the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment, thats one data point
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
[edited]Reminder for warsaw_vial: dose day is today. Set 3 days ago.
if you are struggling in a way this channel cannot hold, please talk to a professional. we are not a crisis service and we know it, ill dig out the number
does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
[edited]it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things