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#mental-health 2026-04-19
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- ivy_injects — 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 16:33
- comment_fatigue — i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me 17:47
- ivy_injects — did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it 19:40
be kind to yourself
[edited]follow up how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
update from 13 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it, take that with a pinch of salt
were not clinicians
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
[edited]thinking of you
that counts
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody, not advice obviously
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
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the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight, ill dig out the number
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i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down, i think
has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
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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
please talk to somebody
nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
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it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things, still working it out
glad youre back
that was me too
thank you for saying it
my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
hold on if you can
follow up i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
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we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
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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
for the archive how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
i came back at month 26 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it, i could be wrong
youre not a fraud
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
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youre not alone in that
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i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
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*Janoshik not the other one
quick one i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with, your mileage will differ
update on the earlier thing the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
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*VendorInvestigate not the other one
has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
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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
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im at month 17 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
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im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
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
[edited]does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
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the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
not the easy way