sorry to jump in the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
#mental-health 2025-09-13
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Highlights from this day
- adelaide_assay — hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there 09:19
- mira_pins — my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened 10:56
- mira_pins — i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first 15:32
- slow.taper — slightly off topic but we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so 16:26
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
it does lift
i came back at month 1 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
[edited]slightly off topic but is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
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be kind to yourself
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
right so i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
same at week 5
*week 12 not week 9
not the easy way
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened
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nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody, n of 1 obviously
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
glad youre back
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how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
that counts
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please talk to somebody
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
thinking of you
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
coming back after 26 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here
is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
youre not a fraud
how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
that was me too
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards, ill dig out the number
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
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i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
youre not alone in that
slightly off topic but we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
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i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
genuine question im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
thats grief honestly