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The connection between not eating and my mood

Started 29 September 2025 · 18 replies · 160 hearts · read 2.5k times

CormacWaterford, IE · 29 September 2025
10 months ago

A question rather than an update: The connection between not eating and my mood

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.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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LeifTrondheim, NO
#1

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#2

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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BramwellNottingham, UK
#3

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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BryherIsles of Scilly, UK
#4

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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BronteHaworth, UK
#5

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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BelCroydon, UK
#6

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

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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JontyOxford, UK
#7

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

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#8

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#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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PippaTruro, UK
#10

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

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AikoOsaka, JP
#11

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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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#12

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

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JunoBrighton, UK
#13

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

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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TaaviTallinn, EE
#14

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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TamzinPoole, UK
#15

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

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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#16

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

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#17

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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TallisEly, UK
#18

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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