found out the medication i thought was helping me was harming me all along

I have a history of mental health disorders so for that I obviously seek treatment. Ever since I was little, i’ve had trouble with emotional eating and binge eating after growing up in a really traumatic childhood. my weight was always a topic of discussion among doctors but the only doctor that i was comfortable really discussing the stress it brought me was my psych doctors. after asking over and over again that whatever medication i was recommended to try be weight neutral, i was finally prescribed my little cocktail lol. 3 years later I didn’t know i’d still be shaking my head at this decision while im on the stairmaster fighting for my life. I was put on Mirtazapine. Sounds harmless right? Wrong :/ I ended up gaining about 130 pounds and saw no end in sight before I finally ended up stopping. I was constantly being told that it wasn’t the medication and it was just my depression which would cause the medication dose to be upped. WELLLL, fast forward to 2025. I’m innocently scrolling on tiktok and I come across a post about a girl in recovery from an eating disorder. Her story touched me and as I was reading the comments I noticed people were asking her how she was able to gain all her healthy weight back. her answer? MIRTAZAPINE :( . the second i saw that my heart sank. i clicked on the comments and it was revealed to me that apparently this is extremely common? all of these girls are saying they were prescribed it specifically for weight gain and appetite stimulation and i’m just completely floored. the amount of times i spent sobbing in that room only to walk out with a medicine that makes everything worse ugh. there is a NSV to this story though- if i would’ve seen this a month or even a year into my weight loss journey i would’ve felt so discouraged and thrown myself a pity party, i probably would’ve ate myself to another 50 pounds. but today I weighed in at 224. i’ve lost over 140 pounds by myself and im only about 40 away from my goal. this is truly the time im doing it for me!! I’m supposed to hit my goal a week before my 26th birthday. it was a shock to read that and see my doctor wasn’t fully truthful but it’s nice to see how my way of thinking has changed through this whole journey and suddenly setbacks don’t seem that big when i know all i have to do is follow the formula

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