The psychological side effects of appetite suppression drugs—and what happens to identity when the body changes faster than the self.
A rapid shift in appetite can feel like relief—until it forces a confrontation with what food was doing psychologically: regulating emotion, creating ritual, or offering a sense of control.
Many people experience an unexpected grief: not for the old body, but for the old coping system.
Every intervention solves one set of problems and introduces another. The question is not whether second-order effects exist, but whether we are honest enough to plan for them.
This is not an argument against GLP-1s—it is an argument for psychological aftercare.