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Mood dipped at week six and lifted at week twelve

Started 3 January 2025 · 12 replies · 141 hearts · read 1.3k times

SaoirseKilkenny, IE · 3 January 2025
1.5 years ago

A question rather than an update: Mood dipped at week six and lifted at week twelve

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

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

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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

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OssianTromsø, NO
#1

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

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TaaviTallinn, EE
#2

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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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BronteHaworth, UK
#3

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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JunoBrighton, UK
#5

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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JontyOxford, UK
#6

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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PippaTruro, UK
#7

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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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#8

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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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#9

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

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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OdessaLviv, UA
#10

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#11

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

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#12

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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