Did anyone who experienced windows while sick eventually recovered/improved?
If you did, which parts recovered? I’m especially interested in anhedonia improvements.
If you used something for recovery, what was it that helped?
I’m interested in partial recoveries and improvements as well.
If you didn’t recover at all, but had/have these sick windows, please comment as well.
I suspect there are diff kinds of pssd profiles/types and I’m trying to find people who match mine the most.
Also if you experience(d) any or a few of:
-developed pssd AFTER quitting,
- anhedonia/emotion blunting
-decreased sweat and body smell
- lack of feeling fatigue like before pssd (can do things easily but with no pleasure)
- lack of interoception (bodily cues of thirst, hunger, bowel movements, heartbeat,)
-do feel slightly better in the evenings or when sleep deprived;
-are a female and lost symptoms of pms/they got diminished;
-had reinstated/crashed on different med
AND improved with time/with substance, please share if you did.
If anyone would find this interesting, I recently had vaginal infection (mostly likely candida) which gave me a good window (only symptom was burning sensation while before pssd when I was still on meds, I would also get discharge and odour as well and the discomfort would be much more intense. Besides, back then candida would also cause fatigue and apathy/blunting as opposed to now.)
Was afraid to treat it with antifungals, so just used my daily acerola and it went away after a few days. But despite of it, I had a window in my overall wellbeing, emotion-wise, I was able to feel my surroundings better, more reactive to stimuli, both positive and negative. Not quite like my pre-pssd state but pretty good, in comparison to it. The window is over now.
I had a couple of other times where a basic cold gave me a relief. Again, not a full pre-pssd state, but enough relief to feel good enough and thank God for it. I also had a sunburn window which felt more like reduction of a negative undertone and made me less depressed/more neutrally apathetic about things.
I have also noticed that I can have negative or positive undertone anhedonia/emotional blunting : I feel no good emotions but have an undertone of bad emotions (possibly induced by the lack of any feeling itself) OR feel no good emotions, nor bad ones (which is easier on me.)
Thank you and take care.<3