at age 19 I was really doing good...I had started college...then at the end of that first summer ....my girlfriend told me she never wanted to see me again...I froze up and my brain seemed to change....I stayed in my room for 2 weeks and never came out...I didn't talk to anyone...that was a long time ago and there were no psych drugs then...I saw a psychiatrist one time and he thought I should return to school....that was a good move but I was miserable for many months at school...but gradually I recovered and returned to relatively normal functioning life...but I was never the same person inside my brain..
for me it was good that there were no psych drugs...and it was good I went back to school even tho it was very hard...I had to keep being with people and working on my courses...my relationship with women would never be the same....