@Admiral. I gave up on explaining it to friends/family long ago. And it's been liberating.
Once you lose or are willing to lose everything, you can do anything.
(since one of those times, I strengthened relationships again. I purposely keep a few friends close and keep tabs on enemies).
Alternatively, one can just keep different people on different levels.
---Random school friend versus colleague, versus great friend from school.
-Family, inlaw that I must be nice too/ associate with versus family member I actually love and vice versa.
-Friends that I can give up versus friends that are like brothers, regardless if we haven't seen each other in a year or we are 10000 km apart.
--Being a friend to yourself, is most important.
I feel Bruschi could be correct for TEI and I've often felt the same way. Electrolytes and other things kind of gave the same results. BUT it does help for some issues, quite strongly. Some other things I use or have used, also do help those other issues. AND yet, neither completely "cure them" usually. I think of remaining 3-4 or so (maybe there's more hidden behind those, but it's best not to be super ocd about symptom count), TEI can potentially solve 2 of those over a long period of time. I'm hopeful it will solve the remaining 1 to 2 outside of that, but I cannot be sure.
Also, it'd be great if it say solved: Asthma, insomnia, "mood lability"/"agitation, low mood", and "scatterbrainedness".
-Basically 2 diagnosed disorders but I don't think I look or act one of them that much, and there's way too much overlap. --whatever, so if it's one disorder and the other's symptomatic of unknowns, if that goes away ON TEI or after many cycles of TEI --- life's still better.
However, it can be a total system approach. May as well try it.
--BUT that could be true of various other "treatments", or other ways to change / rewire the brain. --For example maybe nofap a long long time. --I think TEI helped a lot more than that for say: irritation. Or even for most addictive tendencies (I have pretty sick discipline until something horrible happens and I see no way out, other addictions I'm fine with mostly and cycle them. Some I'm not fine with: Like alcohol or gluten. Definitely not addicted to gluten, but not avoiding it due to laziness is not cool). Definitely was addicted to alcohol in early 20's and probably 5-10 other times.... but mostly that's gone. --or maybe the risk of addictive behavior is never gone, so need to keep it in check.
--FOR sure, electrolytes, and Fasting gave me quick faster, decidedly significant results. HOWEVER, I was barely able to walk before fasting... SO if anything helped ---
--it would sure help a lot more than something towards the end.
--When there's 40 symptoms and you're better off dead............... AND you find a strong treatment. IT's more important/ crucial for that to work, than say 1-3 sx remaining.
--Don't get me wrong, I concede I got other issues besides PFS. Some make me awesome, some lower that awesomeness though. Working on that.
--BUT I'm also back to nearly living alone again (can take possession soon), working on some admission thing 40-60 hrs a week (while I can afford that time), and nearly have a normal job again. And doing other things.
---That's actually better than 2017 pre pfs, EXCEPT ---> for a couple remaining symptoms and less hair (from Lamotrigine).
---Most take 200-1000 hrs for a super high score on some stupid test I'm writing. I hope I can get that in 300-400hrs, but whatever the case may be, future is semi set up again. --much of this happened in days. (finding place, finding right courses, finding out how to attack every single potential problem type for said exam).
---So less vision, not perfect x and not perfect y................ that can be fixed. Digestion fine 80% of the time, can be 100. But I don't need to focus only on health anymore.
--Utilize whatever works. I derived more utility from FASTINg than I did TEI in respect to being able to live again.
--HOWEVER this is like: If I have under 100,000 dollars, I derive more utility from my first 100,000 dollars, than my 9th 100,000 dollars. At 800k, 900k won't necessarily change your life. At 0 dollars, 100k can very well be utilized in changing your life for the better.
---I think TEI could have done a lot of this, but I'm super thankful/ glad I found this place and FASTED first (eventually).
--I have doubts that TEI would have gotten me like 0 to almost one day an ok life ... in 30 days or whatever.
-but who knows, I can't run a double blind experiment on myself or a clone.
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@hairsuit, I still go up and down. And I am 100% certain TEI round 2 will irritate/agitate/ sadden / vex
me occasionally. --mood wise, digestion wise, and ruining fitness results wise. it doesn't really ruin fitness results, but if it looks like it does, that will be a bad day for me.
-Considering I was ripped, lean, and fat looking all just this last week. SO everything changes certain aspects for me quite a lot.
-Testicles look fine almost or small, it's random..... but most symptoms have been crossed off or RATHER - they've been ignored and then remedied...... and surely most of the remaining ones can too. For me and you. --- I can work 2 jobs , or study and work and trade... i.e. over 100hrs a week again. As in mental discipline, endurance, being able to function is a lot better. (I'm not saying that it's "good" or "bad", just that, that's "normal" for Mnk). --It has to be, because I have to catch up a lot of areas.
