it does lift
#mental-health 2026-01-10
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Highlights from this day
- typosquat_tay — the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them 12:51
- two_lifts_a_week — coming back to this anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me 13:27
- VialBot — On this day 8 years ago this channel logged 31 messages. 14:22
- vik_verifies — the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, still working it out 15:31
- vik_verifies — update from 14 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it 17:14
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
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the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
i feel like a fraud reading the wins channel, does that go away
the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
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same at week 5
coming back to this anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
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does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
that was me too
somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
On this day 8 years ago this channel logged 31 messages.
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quick one did anyone else grieve food a bit
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the shame eased when i stopped thinking of it as a shortcut and started thinking of it as treatment
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, still working it out
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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
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
youre not alone in that
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
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how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
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i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
im at month 26 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
were not clinicians
update from 14 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
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is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine