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I miss looking forward to dinner

Started 20 August 2025 · 16 replies · 147 hearts · read 1.4k times

BrammyBelfast, NI · 20 August 2025
11 months ago

I miss looking forward to dinner Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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

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.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#1

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#2

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

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AmmiKarachi, PK
#3

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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MaeveSligo, IE
#4

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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BramGhent, BE
#5

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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NadiaCairo, EG
#6

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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TildaCambridge, UK
#7

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

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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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#8

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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SalmaManchester, UK
#9

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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IzzyWatford, UK
#10

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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BronwenBarry, UK
#11

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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SaraOslo, NO
#12

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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WinnieCarlisle, UK
#13

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

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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SorayaTehran, IR
#14

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#15

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

If any of this has landed close to home for you while reading, our support resources page lists the kinds of services worth finding. No obligation and no drama.

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RinManchester, UK
#16

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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