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I felt flat rather than sad and could not describe it

Started 30 September 2025 · 19 replies · 158 hearts · read 1.4k times

TaaviTallinn, EE · 30 September 2025
10 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: I felt flat rather than sad and could not describe it

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

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.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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FitzLimerick, IE
#1

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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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#2

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

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#3

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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AikoOsaka, JP
#4

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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PippaTruro, UK
#5

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

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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IzzyWatford, UK
#6

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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BryherIsles of Scilly, UK
#7

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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OssianTromsø, NO
#8

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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LeifTrondheim, NO
#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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TallisEly, UK
#10

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

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BramwellNottingham, UK
#11

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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MairéadMayo, IE
#12

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
#13

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

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#14

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

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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CormacWaterford, IE
#15

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

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

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BelCroydon, UK
#16

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

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HeddaCopenhagen, DK
#17

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#18

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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MintaColchester, UK
#19

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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