how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
#mental-health 2025-05-07
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Highlights from this day
- taper_tess — anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me 21:22
- triple_ag_tom — i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number 21:51
- no_chargeback — 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 22:27
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
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not the easy way
thank you for saying it
same at week 5
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hold on if you can
has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
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please talk to somebody
youre not alone in that
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ok so the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
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grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
were not clinicians
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
sorry to jump in we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards, not advice obviously
be kind to yourself
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i came back at month 3 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
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update from 24 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
the quiet is strange isnt it
thats grief honestly
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
youre not a fraud
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
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
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i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
im at month 2 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
slightly off topic but feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
the food noise going quiet is the thing people are least prepared for. i sat in the kitchen at 8pm not knowing what i was for, someone check my working
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i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal