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#mental-health 2025-08-30
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Highlights from this day
- belfast_bac — i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it, i have it written down somewhere 12:40
- belfast_bac — im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as… 13:00
- belfast_bac — anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me 13:33
- VialBot — Verification log updated: JEEP — evidence added, status unchanged. 14:55
- week_three_wall — the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them 14:57
youre not a fraud
same at week 5
slightly off topic but the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
update from 11 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it, i think
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there, take that with a pinch of salt
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
[edited]update on the earlier thing does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards, ask me again in a month
youre not alone in that
quick one did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
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i came back at month 17 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
glad youre back
that was me too
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it, i have it written down somewhere
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flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
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anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
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hold on if you can
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
not the easy way
genuine question you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
be kind to yourself
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quick one the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
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
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the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
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how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
did anyone else grieve food a bit