#mental-health 2026-04-10

does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide

you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were

thats grief honestly

ok so it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things

i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me

i came back at month 14 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected

ok so somebody thanked me a year later for something i barely remember saying, and that is why i still read this every day

it does lift

how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious

that was me too

did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it

i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with

is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect

anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me

comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it, for what its worth

is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this

the quiet is strange isnt it

while im here we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so

i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it

my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made, take that with a pinch of salt

my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing

same at week 5

while im here how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way

does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it

feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel

you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story

update from 6 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it

if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that

did anyone else grieve food a bit

the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them

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

i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number

the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards

quick one somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine