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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science Says People Who Lose Weight on GLP-1 Drugs Face More Stigma Than People Who Stay Overweight. That’s Just Weird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I meet someone new, especially if it’s a romantic partner, the second they learn I’m on a cocktail of psychiatric medication, their first impulse is to tell me how they’re gonna try to wean me off it. I’m sure their hearts are in the right place… kinda… but yeah, they can fuck all the way off if they think I’m going back to my pre-medicated state. They really think of psychiatry as some fluffy non-science that deals with amorphous and vague conditions, and no doubt believe the books that seem to come out every year claiming the entire industry is a placebo factory. Like, come spend the week with me when I stop taking my meds and tell me it’s a placebo 😒

  I’m sorry to hear about your brothers. Two of my brothers are fellow depression sufferers too, multiple attempts between them, so I feel incredibly lucky when I read a comment like yours. It’s been hard, but it hasn’t been that hard. I don’t know what I’d do if one (nevermind both) of my brothers checked out. Doesn’t bear thinking about, and again I feel lucky that I have the option to not think about such eventualities. I can’t imagine what your family has gone through.

  All the best to you 💗

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science Says People Who Lose Weight on GLP-1 Drugs Face More Stigma Than People Who Stay Overweight. That’s Just Weird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bigotry towards fat people is based on some Joe Rogan levels of insight into the basis of human character. They think of fat people as lazy, ignorant, gluttonous. Losing weight the hard way shows improvement of character, it shows they’ve broken free from their lazy ignorant fattosity, the weight-loss itself is almost secondary. Losing weight with a drug is just further ‘evidence’ that they have no character and are lazing their way through life. If they have such poor willpower and shallowness of character, they can’t be trusted in other areas of life either. They’re broken, defective people.

  That’s been my experience, anyway. I was thin and athletic-looking up until my mid-20s, but my younger brother was always overweight. He was more active than me, there isn’t a sport you could name that he wasn’t doing on the regular. Even boxing, which is extremely intensive in the training. I spent my childhood eating cake and playing video games. There’s simply no fucking possibility that he and I were dealt the same metabolic hand. But people would often ask me how I managed to stay thin while my brother was fat. “Managed” being the operative word. I didn’t manage shit. But my brother faced nonstop bullying for his size, and I obviously didn’t. People really do have a 1 IQ understanding of this shit. You’re fat = you eat too much and laze around, so you’re a weak person deserving of scorn and rejection. If you take a drug to correct it, then you’re a liar who found a lazy loophole to avoid your much-deserved derision.

  It seems people never outgrow that imbecilic idea, if that study is anything to go by. The irony, of course, is that the people who hate others over this sort of thing are gigantic hypocrites who have huge yawning chasms where their own character ought to be. Cunts, in other words. If their failings were visible to everyone, they’d likely resemble that fella in RoboCop when the tank of acid empties over him.