the quiet is strange isnt it
#mental-health 2026-06-03
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Highlights from this day
- comment_fatigue — i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with 17:37
- gradient_greg — im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took… 17:38
- gradient_greg — nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it 17:41
- gradient_greg — i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i… 17:44
thinking of you
does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
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nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
youre not alone in that
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
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
thank you for saying it
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this