Who hasn't lost their mind and career?

I’m currently in the middle of a terrible crash 2 months after quitting fin after long term on-and-off use. My job is very demanding and I’m wondering whether I’ll be able to hold it together. Is there anyone who managed to keep their illness confined to their personal/sexual sphere, without it wrecking everything else in their life? That’s what I’m trying hard to do right now. I can accept I will be asexual. I can accept that I might have some of the health problems that are described on this forum (I already have mild tinnitus, in addition to the sexual sides). I’m just begging I will be able to continue doing the job I love and have fought hard to get. I feel my mental sides are not (yet) as bad as some others describe them, except for the fatigue, which obviously influences cognitive performance. What I find most crippling is the feeling of regret, and of worry of further deterioration of my condition.

Looking for any success stories in this regard. Not miracle recoveries, just people who managed to hold it together and keep going. Replies mean a lot :slight_smile:

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Cognitive issues should improve in the coming months. I was in a similar position in a highly demanding job and managed to hold things together. Wasn’t easy at first.

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Chi did, I managed to (JUST ABOUT) but it was tough the first couple of months. As with most of us, the life I’d built and the person I’d become, which ofc I always imagined would be “there” all vanished.

But yes, I held it together and doing miles better now.

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I am three months in. Sometimes it is hard sometimes it is fine, sometimes I feel great… Sexually I have had windows of being able to get things ok. At the moment I feel shit and libido is gone…
I lost everything in the span of three months, especially my GF. That was and still is a blow… I have tried to date girls but getting beyond seduction is scaring the shit out of me…
I went back to work a month ago. I am doing ok but sometimes feel a bit dazed. It goes away and I can hold it together for now…
I just hope to improve through that first year and redefining myself as another person as another OP put it. Take A couple of months off if you can, rest, see people. Avoid mulling over and thinking PFS all day long… It has been a life saver for the last month… But it is always in the back of my mind…

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