#mental-health 2025-10-11

you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story

youre not a fraud

is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect

that was me too

i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well

hold on if you can

the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it, happy to be corrected
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me

Inter-lab diff for lot A-2418: 96.8% vs 99.2%. Within expected range.

hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there, happy to be corrected

youre not alone in that

thank you for saying it

Assay note: WWB lot B-0114 reported at 98.6% of label content.

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

flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while

nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody, from memory

the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment

does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief

for the archive im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it

update from 13 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it

i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down

my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made

grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life

how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely

please talk to somebody

thinking of you

i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with

coming back after 5 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here

not the easy way

slightly off topic but the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal, for what its worth

unrelated but does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it

it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things

ok so we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so

does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide

the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them

unrelated but comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it

im at month 13 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing

sorry to jump in did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it

slightly off topic but i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first