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#mental-health 2025-06-17

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Highlights from this day
  • bpc_sceptic — 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 19:38
  • bpc_sceptic — the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment 20:16
  • escalation_anxiety — the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it 20:25
P2

for the archive how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way

BS

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

P2

update on the earlier thing i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away

BS

the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment

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

EA

i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well

the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it

BS

the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely