for the archive nobody says you took the easy way about a blood pressure tablet, and i keep that sentence ready for when i need it
#mental-health 2026-06-04
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- noct.titrate — how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this 17:19
- area_percent — i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well 18:30
- noct.titrate — my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made 19:05
- HPLC_Hank — the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal 20:31
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
how do you handle a partner who is not pleased about you doing this
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does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
update on the earlier thing im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
motivation has collapsed since the scale stopped moving, has anyone been here
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened
please talk to somebody
people keep commenting on my body and i hate it, how do you handle that
were not clinicians
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, ill dig out the number
sorry to jump in comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
i told my family at month four rather than week one, and the timing is what made it go well
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hold on if you can
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
coming back to this the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
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my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
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right so somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine, i think
i came back at month 4 to say thank you and got a much warmer response than i expected
is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
the quiet is strange isnt it
thats grief honestly
the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
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youre not alone in that
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
be kind to yourself
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genuine question i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with, from memory
genuine question if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that, happy to be corrected
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
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