be kind to yourself
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#mental-health 2025-02-28
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Highlights from this day
- half_life_hal — for the archive it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things 14:54
- acetate_ash — if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that 17:07
- void_volume — right so does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it 17:08
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
it does lift
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
glad youre back
youre not alone in that
for the archive it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
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somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
the quiet is strange isnt it
follow up my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
i came back at month 1 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected, happy to be corrected
has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
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, for what its worth
mood dipped hard around week 32, did that lift for anyone
right so 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
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
hold on if you can
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
quick one the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, for what its worth
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
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right so does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
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i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
update from 24 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it