my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened
#mental-health 2025-06-01
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- font_forensics — follow up nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it 15:07
- night_pin — 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 16:07
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- font_forensics — update from 1 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it 17:39
- panel_before_after — for the archive i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with 17:42
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there, from memory
im at month 25 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
glad youre back
thinking of you
follow up nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
quick one you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me, i could be wrong
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
that counts
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the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment, happy to be corrected
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
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
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the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
[edited]update from 1 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
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for the archive i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
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grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number, not advice obviously
right so my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
it does lift