thats grief honestly
#mental-health 2026-02-13
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- nordic_price_nils — anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me 17:10
- adelaide_assay — i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number 17:27
- quiet.hours — the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it 17:30
- quiet.hours — i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it 17:48
- VialBot — Batch lookup H-2814: 7 independent reports on file, earliest 2026-01-02. 19:18
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
youre not alone in that
anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
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please talk to somebody
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
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the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it
same at week 5
thank you for saying it
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17:45quiet.hours pinned a message to this channel
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
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comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
not the easy way
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
youre not a fraud
that was me too
coming back to this motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
i came back at month 12 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
Batch lookup H-2814: 7 independent reports on file, earliest 2026-01-02.
mood dipped hard around week 21, did that lift for anyone
i came back at month 26 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
thinking of you
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
im at month 9 and doing well and feel strangely sad about it, is that a thing
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
for the archive how do you tell family youre on this without getting a lecture back
it does lift
the quiet is strange isnt it
nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
hold on if you can