#mental-health 2026-02-18

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baseline_drift — for the archive my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened 19:49
baseline_drift — did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it 20:10
baseline_drift — the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal 20:40

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

thank you for saying it

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update from 11 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it

same at week 5

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

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

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

for the archive 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 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

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

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it does lift

nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it

the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards

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i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt

the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal

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im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it

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

how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious

nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody, thats just me

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

the quiet is strange isnt it

were not clinicians