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Thread · #mental-health · 2025-03-04

i asked one relative to stop commenting

Spun off from a message in #mental-health on 2025-03-04. 9 messages, 3 participants.

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  • fridge_thermo — came back to say thank you i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it, more detail if anyone wants i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food… 22:34
TS

the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it

FT

talked to somebody, reporting comments from family land badly more often than people expect and you are allowed to ask them to stop, i post on bad weeks now

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TO

i post here on bad weeks now instead of going quiet, which is the only real thing i have changed

TS

losing a coping mechanism is a real loss even when the mechanism was harmful. that is allowed to be hard, please see someone if it is heavy

FT

nothing in this room is medical advice and mental health advice least of all

TS

came back to say thank you my mood dipped around week five and lifted by about week ten. i cannot tell you why either of those happened

TO

it does stop being the main thing in your head. mine took about a year, someone check my working