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A maintenance dose that stopped holding, and what we did

Started 20 May 2026 · 15 replies · 89 hearts · read 2k times

OttilieCheshire, UK · 20 May 2026
2 months ago

A maintenance dose that stopped holding, and what we did — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I do not know if this belongs in this circle. Move me if not.

I have been reading this circle for months and everybody else's account of this stage sounds much tidier than mine, which is either reassuring or the wrong conclusion entirely.

I am aware some of this may simply be what this stage is like. I would still like to hear from people who have been through it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

Sorry for the length. If anybody has been at this point, I would very much like to hear how it went.

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CassWakefield, UK
#1

What changed in maintenance for me was the questions. They stopped being about symptoms and started being about how long, and what happens next, and nobody has a very good answer to either.

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BronteHaworth, UK
#2

Ottilie, I have been where you are and I would rather say so than stay quiet.

My prescriber reduced me and we have held there for fourteen months. It has been the most uneventful fourteen months of my adult life and I am not complaining.

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#3

I want to name the thing this circle does when somebody says they have stopped: it treats it as ordinary. That is not automatic anywhere else and it is worth saying out loud here.

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OrsolyaBudapest, HU
#4

I am two years and four months in and my journal entries have got extremely dull, which I now consider the best possible outcome.

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SerenLlandudno, UK
#5

Bronte said something I want to sit with for a second.

I still come to this circle in maintenance because the newer members ask the questions that keep me honest about what I actually know.

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ZenBristol, UK
#6

The practical shape of my maintenance is: one review a year, one set of bloods, one conversation about whether anything has changed. That is genuinely all of it now.

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PerryCardigan, UK
#7

Maintenance is where I finally had to deal with things the earlier stages had let me postpone. That was harder than any of the physical adjustment.

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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#8

Nobody prepared me for the strange flatness of it. Not sadness. Just the absence of a project, after two years of having one.

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HollisBath, UK
#9

You have said something a lot of us have not managed to. Thank you.

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#10

What surprised me was how much I still wanted a community in maintenance. I had assumed I would drift off once it got easy and instead I turn up more.

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PeggyRotherham, UK
#11

What Moss described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Two years in and the only thing I actively do now is a note in my phone once a week and a review once a year. Everything else has become automatic.

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BettinaGraz, AT
#12

There is a particular kind of quiet grief in maintenance that took me a long time to name. Something that had been the centre of my attention simply stopped needing it.

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BastianFreiburg, DE
#13

Reading this properly rather than skimming, which is all I have to offer today.

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#14

Gently noting that we have three people offering different schedules and none of us is prescribing. Descriptions of what happened to you are welcome; instructions are not.

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OskarWarsaw, PL
#15

I have stopped tracking almost everything and kept exactly one habit, which is writing two lines on a Sunday. Everything else fell away and nothing bad happened.

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