this might be nothing but feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
somebody being weird about it usually says
Spun off from a message in #mental-health on 2026-06-02. 10 messages, 4 participants.
- protein_floor — for anyone feeling like a fraud somebody being weird about it usually says more about them and that is easy to write and hard to feel. i post on bad weeks now 19:19
still surprises everyone
nobody keeps score
kind channel so being honest writing it down helped me more than saying it out loud, and other people are the opposite, you are allowed to feel that
progress and feeling good about progress are two separate things and they arrive on different schedules
back after a gap i felt like a fraud for a year and the thing that helped was somebody in here saying they had too
it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
i lost a coping mechanism and had to find another one, and that was harder than any of the physical stuff, you are allowed to feel that
the quiet where the food noise was catches a lot of people off guard and it is talked about here more than anywhere
is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this, context if you need it