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How I stopped photographing myself weekly

Started 19 November 2025 · 16 replies · 140 hearts · read 1.2k times

OrsolyaBudapest, HU · 19 November 2025
8 months ago

How I stopped photographing myself weekly — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I have been sitting on this for a month.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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MimiHong Kong
#1

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#2

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#3

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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OsricSalisbury, UK
#4

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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RinManchester, UK
#5

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#6

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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DotFalmouth, UK
#7

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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GwythFishguard, UK
#8

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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LulaBournemouth, UK
#9

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#10

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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ClémenceNantes, FR
#11

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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ZenBristol, UK
#12

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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TiborBratislava, SK
#13

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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NissaHaifa, IL
#14

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#15

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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OrsolyaBudapest, HU
#16

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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