Can't go to therapy...is there any way I can learn the skills of therapy by myself? Will the skills of therapy even help me?

Good for you, you had good therapists. I havent and after not having a single good therapy experience in 14 years, what is my incentive to continue looking?

Good for you, you dont have too many bad side effects from your medication. Guess what, lots of people do. Just look at my previous posts to see how it has fucked up the lives of people I know. Just Google any of these medications to see how awful the side effects can be. Im not going to play Russian roulette with my mind and body. I know this must be a stunning concept to someone as solipsistic as you seem to be, but not everybody is affected by things in the exact same way that you are.

I may have issues now, but I know if I was fat with no chance of ever being a healthy weight again, I'd want to kill myself for sure. A life not being able to go hiking or for a bike ride. Not being able to wear the clothes that I like. Never being able to look in the mirror again and liking what I see. Never being seen as attractive by anyone again (except for people with fetishes), including my own husband probably. Being judged by people as a lazy glutton even though I am vegetarian and eat healthy. And worst of all, shortening my lifespan by 20 or 30 years, dealing with chronic health issues that will require even more medications and medical care. I have a family history of diabetes and colon cancer. Yeah that really doesnt sound like much of a life at all. In fact that basically is a living death.

And once again, since you clearly didnt get it the last three times I said it. If you are not going to offer me suggestions on ways I can help myself without therapy or medication, then take your pharmaceutical-shilling propaganda elsewhere.

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