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A separation, a move, and no appetite at all

Started 6 June 2026 · 10 replies · 58 hearts · read 1.4k times

NúriaBarcelona, ES · 6 June 2026
1 month ago

A separation, a move, and no appetite at all Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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 would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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

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BronwenBarry, UK
#1

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

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BibiRabat, MA
#2

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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NerysRhyl, UK
#3

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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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#4

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

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MaudGhent, BE
#5

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

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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OsgarKillarney, IE
#6

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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TiborBratislava, SK
#7

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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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#8

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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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#9

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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BibiRabat, MA
#10

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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