not the easy way
#mental-health 2025-11-17
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Highlights from this day
- eat_more_please — coming back after 10 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here 22:43
- step_one_sian — follow up i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it 22:49
- zed_zeroes_in — the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely 23:08
- zed_zeroes_in — does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it 23:20
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
thats grief honestly
[edited]i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down, ill dig out the number
update on the earlier thing is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
coming back after 10 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here
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follow up i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
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the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
i came back at month 11 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
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be kind to yourself
it does lift
does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
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hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
genuine question somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me