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Thread · #mental-health · 2026-02-09

how do you deal with somebody saying you took

Spun off from a message in #mental-health on 2026-02-09. 16 messages, 4 participants.

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  • shame_and_meds — this might be nothing but how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way, happy to be told to read the pin 09:13
HS

somebody being weird about it usually says more about them and that is easy to write and hard to feel, please talk to somebody qualified

BR

you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story, come back any time

checking i am not mad we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so, kind channel, no judgement

SO

somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine, the mirror lags, apparently

BR

talking to somebody qualified was the single most useful thing i did and it took me two years to do it, happy to talk more if it helps

SA

grief is the right word for it and it took me a long time to let myself use it, thats where i landed

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SO

bracing for it to go wrong does fade. it took me most of a year, took me about a year

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

SO

i lost a coping mechanism and had to find another one, and that was harder than any of the physical stuff

HS

the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight, i post on bad weeks now

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HS

the quiet where the food noise was catches a lot of people off guard and it is talked about here more than anywhere