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Thread · #mental-health · 2025-07-12

it is a loss as well as a relief

Spun off from a message in #mental-health on 2025-07-12. 15 messages, 4 participants.

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  • electrolyte_eli — it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things 14:00
SA

hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there

🧪14

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

SA

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

thats grief honestly

TF

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

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TF

i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number

TF

how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely

EE

somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine