youre not a fraud
#mental-health 2025-11-15
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Highlights from this day
- third_shift — my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made 20:13
- salt_bridge — the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal 20:43
- sgp_subq — mood dipped hard around week 5, did that lift for anyone 21:21
- aliquot_ada — my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened 21:39
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
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genuine question has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
coming back after 23 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it, thats one data point
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
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were not clinicians
[edited]same at week 5
unrelated but the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, ask me again in a month
[edited]be kind to yourself
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the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment, thats just me
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
coming back to this you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
hold on if you can
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
i came back at month 21 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
right so nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
mood dipped hard around week 5, did that lift for anyone
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nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
for the archive update from 2 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
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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the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
the quiet is strange isnt it