Hey StartingOver:
First of all, congrats on the recovery and making good progress on life.
Long story short. My experience is very similar to yours: 26 yo when I
started Fin, quit about 2 years later, was good for like 6 months, then
experienced the crash and has only been slowly recovering since March 2013.
It’s been about a year and a half now since I crashed. All symptoms are
better compared to when I was the worst, however I still suffer from the
following on and off, some days better then others: muscle fatigue (lack of
muscle tone and growth in spite of exercise), brain fog, slow learning,
retaining, and recalling new information, insomnia (I can fall asleep, but
sometimes wake up 1 or 2 times in the middle of the night, no refresh
feeling in the morning), adhedonia (not just when it comes to sex, but
pretty much everything in life, eg, music, taste, emotions etc),
mild/moderate depression, problem with spontaneous erection, however ok
with stimulation, low semen volume.
I have a few questions hope you can provide some answers to:
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I can’t recall if you had problem with sleeping. If you did, did that
resolve completely for you? Specifically, do you sleep sound and nice now
and can wake up with a refreshed feeling?
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ever since I crashed, my skin has aged a lot. My skin used to be smooth,
soft and elastic, but now appears rough, blemished as a result of
sedimentation of pigments, and inelastic. I didn’t come across this issue
in your post. Did you experience this problem? If you did, is that
something that’s resolved for you over time?
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The decline in intellect capacity is something you mentioned. I wondered
if that’s resolved for you? Nowadays, do you feel like your intellect
capacity has come back to pre-fin?
Thank you very much for answering my questions. Overall I am optimistic but
sometimes I feel like all I do is mourning over the loss of something that
I was taking for granted before.