I've started this thread to chat about how others have helped themselves recover from these episodes, what the aftermath was like, how you got over it, and so on.

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Moreover, I've found that time itself has been the best healer. It's now been 5 years since my last episode, and as time passes the life I experienced the episodes in feels like a completely different, past life, and I gradually become more disconnected from it (or at least I try to).