i came back at month 1 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected, ask me again in a month
#mental-health 2025-12-01
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- pbs_pip — unrelated but the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it, someone check my working 11:40
- verify_or_dont — 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 12:34
- pbs_pip — 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 15:52
- VialBot — Testing queue: 3 submissions open, 138 awaiting dispatch. 16:28
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
sorry to jump in im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
thats grief honestly
unrelated but the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it, someone check my working
i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
[edited]we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things, anyway
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
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 asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
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feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
glad youre back
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
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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
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
the quiet is strange isnt it
how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first, n of 1 obviously
update from 15 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
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
is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
it does lift
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how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
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does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
youre not alone in that