update on the earlier thing the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it, your mileage will differ
#mental-health 2026-05-02
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- willow_waits — i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting 14:55
- willow_waits — i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first 14:57
- first_and_last_four — does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief 15:43
- pinch_not_stretch — people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that 15:53
- pinch_not_stretch — it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things 16:53
that counts
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
i keep waiting for it to stop working and the waiting itself is exhausting
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i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
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how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
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you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
does anyone else find compliments make them want to hide
youre not alone in that
nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
i came back at month 13 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
the quiet is strange isnt it
does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
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people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
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were not clinicians
unrelated but i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt, i have it written down somewhere
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
that was me too
follow up how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
the food noise went completely quiet and i dont know what to do with the silence, is that normal
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
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please talk to somebody