There are three distinct types of people in this community and they need completely different things from it. We mostly serve one of them well.
Type one: people who are just starting, anxious, full of questions, not sure what to expect. They need honest preparation and normalized expectations. The community serves them reasonably well when it isn't intimidating them with jargon.
Type two: people actively in treatment, optimizing, troubleshooting, engaged with their results. This is who the community is primarily built for and it shows. Most posts, most comments, most knowledge is aimed here.
Type three: people who are maintaining, past the dramatic phase, doing the invisible long-term work of staying stable on a medication indefinitely with no visible milestone coming. The community has almost nothing for them. Posts about maintenance get a fraction of the engagement of loss posts. The psychological landscape of month 24 is basically undocumented here.