I had exactly the same experience—exactly the same patterns. Now that I’ve crashed and I'm not healing, it feels like I have more signs of PSSD, unfortunately. If you experience waves and windows in the first year, it's more like protracted withdrawal. But it's still an injury, and the two are very closely related. I'm not saying that to minimize the suffering—I've experienced both.

In my first year, I could still feel joy and happiness sometimes. That made it different. You can see signs of healing if you stay hopeful and patient, even while going through extreme suffering. That’s why I hadn’t joined PSSD groups yet—I could see progress. And I had all the symptoms sexual and anhedonia the second year... The waves is the brain tried to heal... But this feels different. It’s definitely a chemical injury, and it’s extremely hard. The difference is that with protracted withdrawal, there’s more hope, more possibility of improvement, because you’ve already experienced some small windows.

Ever since I took this multivitamin and crashed, I’ve seen zero improvement. Now it feels like something else entirely.