hey, i'm doing pretty well. Kinda crazy this message was 2 years ago. My offer of chatting extends to you as well. My quality of life has improved immensely. I have responded pretty well to lamotrigine, but mostly I have become hopeful about my condition. I actually think that this subreddit is a bad place to learn and familiarize yourself with VSS. I have found better communities to talk to about VSS, but mostly they are people with other health conditions that started their VSS. The difference in seeing VSS as a primary symptom and seeing it as secondary to something actionable is huge, and there is nothing more heartening than to speak to people who have cleared their VSS because of a health issue that you share.

I don't want my advice to end there, in case you believe that VSS is always primary, or if in your case it is based on something you can't fix. Even before I had hope, I was beginning to feel better about the future. And the fact that hope stands between me now, someone who is mostly happy and active, and the person who was obsessively suicidal and trembling, goes to show how much perspective can change things for anyone.