genuine question feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
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#mental-health 2025-05-04
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- back_from_away — genuine question feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel 16:11
- power_through_no — does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief 17:05
- power_through_no — the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it 17:08
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
[edited]coming back after 9 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here
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the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
thank_you_year_onthe plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other…
i came back at month 20 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected, not advice obviously
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened, thats one data point
youre not a fraud
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glad youre back
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
the quiet is strange isnt it
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
quick one i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
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the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
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i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
that was me too
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
be kind to yourself
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same at week 5
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
that counts
slightly off topic but mood dipped hard around week 25, did that lift for anyone
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it, thats just me
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
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i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
update from 3 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so