feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel, thats just me
#mental-health 2025-10-25
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- shame_and_meds — feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel, thats just me 15:26
- shame_and_meds — 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 i told my family at month four… 15:46
- shame_and_meds — you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story, take that with a pinch of salt 16:37
- seizure_letter — you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were, i could be wrong 16:54
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
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
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somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
sorry to jump in i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
please talk to somebody
while im here i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
not the easy way
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you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story, take that with a pinch of salt
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were, i could be wrong
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update from 17 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
thats grief honestly
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
that counts