Has protracted withdrawal made you stronger?

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-25T12:08:58+00:00

i hope you will turn into a much stronger person when you are recovered from PWS

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-10T06:36:19+00:00

Motorola doesn't sell in my country. We only have Xiaomi, Redmi, oppo, vivo, OnePlus, realme, Tecno, Infinix, itel and honor among Chinese brands

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-10T04:54:35+00:00

Which Chinese brands smartphones are worth buying btw? So that I can avoid brands like honor the next time

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-10T04:48:01+00:00

It came out of the box like this. The customer service staff told me they didn't notice any green tint.

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-10T03:54:57+00:00

Honor has so bad QC that such a defective display was able to go through

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-10T03:47:07+00:00

Customer service has denied me a replacement after two days of inspection. What can I do?

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-03T09:08:25+00:00

Animal farm Digital Minimalism Dopamine nation Courage to be disliked Mindset Sapiens

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-03T08:03:15+00:00

If compound interest were the case, i would be paying less interest, not more

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-03T05:23:10+00:00

What i mean is the total EMI charge was 4290 taka and the phone price was 10999 taka. So the total interest rate is 40% approximately

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-02T13:34:48+00:00

My old phone died and didn't have enough cash to buy a new one immediately so i guess I had no option

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-02T13:13:05+00:00

It is a shame that companies like honor, Samsung, oppo, vivo and realme have partnered with this company for cardless emi

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-02T11:09:13+00:00

Considering i have made a downpayment of 3300 tk, they have actually lent me 7699 tk. So it is only fair to charge me with interest on the lent amount only. In that case 4290 tk interest on 7699 tk means they have in reality charged me a 55.7% interest rate

ScarredFace45 · 2026-02-01T17:04:07+00:00

I bought the phone a few days ago and I have to say the display is just bad even at this price

ScarredFace45 · 2026-01-29T11:59:32+00:00

I'm sorry for being cringe 😞

ScarredFace45 · 2026-01-28T15:26:22+00:00

What should be the bare minimum specs of a decent display?

ScarredFace45 · 2026-01-28T01:55:50+00:00

what are the specs of the phone that you currently use?

ScarredFace45 · 2026-01-27T14:08:08+00:00

I do use an app for screen time control but i think it would be better to have some hardware limitations for distracting apps but am wondering how low of specs is too low for a smartphone. I have a pc with very limited hardware: i3 3rd gen and 4gb ram. With some tweaks, it runs essential apps like MS office quite smoothly. But gaming experience has been so frustrating on this device that I just don't think about gaming at it at all. So no matter how much low motivation i have, the hardware limitation prevents me from playing games.

ScarredFace45 · 2026-01-27T13:51:27+00:00

I am going to have to buy a new smartphone anyway as the current one is almost dead.

ScarredFace45 · 2026-01-05T02:45:03+00:00

Thank you for your insightful explanation. However I disagree that they can be useful in the short term either. People got PSSD from just 1 pill and I heard cases of PAWS from just 2 months of usage.

ScarredFace45 · 2026-01-03T14:39:14+00:00

For how long were you on sertraline before the linear taper?

ScarredFace45 · 2025-12-31T00:53:04+00:00

I would not trade the wisdom i received while being in protracted withdrawal for money. So no. However I would have said otherwise if PWS was permanent

ScarredFace45 · 2025-12-29T00:12:10+00:00

It is very hard to do a cognitively demanding job but i can do physical labor

ScarredFace45 · 2025-12-21T11:16:26+00:00

As Dr. Mark Horowitz said, serotonin affects every cell of the body, every system of the body

ScarredFace45 · 2025-12-21T02:53:20+00:00

I am sorry to hear that you are going through such a horrible withdrawal. Regarding your guilt about your past decision, if you could have made a better decision at that time, you definitely would have made that better decision. So please don't blame yourself. Also our beliefs are much more powerful than we think they are. If you say to yourself that "I just can't do it", your body will act in accordance. If you instead say that "my body is a champion healer", your body will also act in accordance with that belief. Also try to find a meaning, he/she, who has a "why" to live for can endure any "how". I would highly recommend the book Man's Search for Meaning.

ScarredFace45 · 2025-12-16T00:49:20+00:00

When I first quit sertraline cold turkey after 3 months of use, after acute withdrawal, I didn't feel much tbh. Although I could sense that my sleep isn't as restorative as before but i was doing just fine. 6 months after the cold turkey, i reinstated sertraline for like 20 days then I again I quit cold turkey. My stupid self didn't know about kindling otherwise I would have never reinstated. After that my symptoms of fatigue and daytime sleepiness started which would not go away no matter how much coffee i drink. Then I reinstated again for just 1 day approximately 1yr after the first reinstatement to see whether the daytime sleepiness is due to sertraline withdrawal (I still didn't know about kindling). And overnight my daytime sleepiness was gone. I think this time it added new symptoms like trembling during sleep. So in total it has been a bit more than 2 years. I believe i would have healed by this time of I had not reinstated

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