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well, 5 days or maybe 6Deamiter said:Sometime in June for me. However, I'm really free of the compulsion. I let myself slide into the horrible cycle of depression when I lost a close friend (all is well between us now!) and it seemed like the only thing left! Of course, I finally got so desperate I made an appointment to see my psychiatrist the next day, and in that 24 hours, just thinking about the appointment reminded me of all the successful coping strategies we had built together.
I imagine I'll always be one to relapse as I'm rather compulsive in all of life, but each time it's less and less difficult to resist and more and more removed from the last!