When to stop reading forums, including this one I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below.
Something that has come up for me and that I suspect is more common than the discussion suggests.
It is not a side effect in the labelling sense and it is not nothing. It has changed over 11 weeks in a direction I did not expect.
Nothing here is advice from me to anybody, and I would like to hear how other people have thought about it.
Picking up post #26: that is the part I would want checked first.
Comparing your own experience to a trial average is a poor use of a trial average, particularly for outcomes as variable as this one.
I would hold that lightly until someone with a larger sample weighs in.
Answering the question post #26 raises rather than the one it answers.
Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.
The arithmetic in post #44 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.
Maintenance brings a different set of psychological questions from loss, and the discussion here is much thinner on that phase.
If this contradicts something upthread, the upthread version may well be the better one.
Post #52 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it.
Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.
It is one reading of the data and not the only reasonable one.
Worth separating two things that post #62 runs together.
Where a member is finding this hard, the useful reply is usually a question rather than an answer, and this subcategory does that well.
Worth saying I have only my own numbers here, and n is small.
Nothing here is medical advice and several members in this subcategory say plainly that they are describing their own experience only.
I am describing what is, rather than arguing for what should be.
Isolation is a common thread in accounts here and is one of the few things a community can genuinely help with.
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