What our family therapist suggested about food language

Started 18 August 2025 · 17 replies · 157 hearts · read 1.6k times

CarlMiddlesbrough, UK · 18 August 2025

11 months ago

What our family therapist suggested about food language — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

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

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

MarkCoventry, UK

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

BobbieRochdale, UK

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

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

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.

TasnimBradford, UK

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

PipBristol, UK

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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BramwellNottingham, UK

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

ZenBristol, UK

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

OrvalWinnipeg, CA

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.

NemoneLewes, UK

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

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.

SalmaManchester, UK

#10

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.

NualaArmagh, NI

#11

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

LuPreston, UK

#12

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

HannahSheffield, UK

#13

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?

OrphBath, UK

#14

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

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

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NanNeath, UK

#15

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.

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

#16

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

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

PoppyLeeds, UK

#17

Building on what the reply above 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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