Budal202
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Hey Budal! Glad to hear you're doing so well. Can you tell us more about the medications - if they might have played a role in your recovery? If you recovered sometime after being on those meds for a long time then it is possible that they played a role, even if you did not recover while still on the medications and there was a gap between when you stopped the meds and recovered. Although I am a big advocate of doing whatever we can consciously (mindfulness, anti-rumination techniques) to recover as well, I just think that some people may need to approach the problem from more than one angle if one angle isn't cutting it.
Fare well
Hey Cotcha :D Guys this is one of the people who helped me when I was really bad, he has great advice.
I totally agree with you when you say that people may need to approach the problem from more than one angle, I myself approached dozens of those.
Running, writing, meditating, working out, medications, dozens of supplements, health food, more medications, yoga, religions, almost contemplate using other drugs but never did it, brain supplements like piracetam, I basically tried everything. I just would not give up without trying everything. That's what I used to say to myself in the worst days, when I tought about end it all. I would just give up after trying everything, and when I say everything, is that I was analising the possibility of going to Amazonia (I live in Brazil) trying to live with an indigenous tribe with only the things that nature gives, and not give up before trying it.
In the end I believe that each of those things were a part of my recovery, some more, some less, some producing chemical changes, other knowledge, some scars.
I Think Lexapro (SSRI) had a very important role in reducing intrusive and obcessive thoughts, earworms, tremors and palpitations. It brought almost none negative side effects. Before taking it, due to the extreme level of stress and anxiety I couldn't even lift my buddy, had no libido, and then when I started taking it I was able to have sex, I began to feel the world and my life better, and went of depersonalization. But I'm sure that it's contribution was only like 40%. The most important were my notebooks, I could write and understand everything about my condition, I could unload my negative thoughts and create a timeline of my life, a clear material for me to understand things i needed to understand.
As I said earlier, the first time I got out of depersonalization for a moment was the day I wrote my first 20 pages in 20 minutes. After that my mind was completely clean for some hours, without anxiety, without thought, without earworms, no worries . No supplement did any difference. I tried more than 20.
One thing that may seem strange, but since 16 years I smoked marijuana and drank alcohol almost every week, and after my LTC happened I abruptly stopped with these two substances. After performing some experiments with alcohol during the LTC somehow i was able to forget a little about all this. I'm not making apology to alcohol, just saying that in my case, before it all happened I was used to having exhaust valves to forget my problems, and when LTC happened had to deal with everything at once crude and sober. It may not be appropriate to stop alcohol once, but do it gradually.
