Wanted to make an update on my progress.
I finished my healing permanently about a month ago. When I made this, I was already at the end. I had a couple of regressions since I made this, but by now, I would already have a regression. I have had none. It is permanently finished. This challenges the notion that "healing is a lifelong process." I finished it in nine months. I will update if something comes up, but I really do doubt it because I never went longer than two weeks without a regression.
I have no desire to commit suicide. I do not feel depressed at all. I do feel bored because the healing has completely changed my personality, and I don't know what I like anymore. I value different things, so it's a journey to rediscover myself.
My full healing with a history of extreme C-PTSD took me about 250 hours of healing. You can do, on average, one hour per day. It usually looks like 3 hours every 3 days. It took me a total of nine months. And I am free from the mental shackles. It slowly went from 3 hours every 3 days to getting to 2 hours. Sometimes it would take the whole day because I would have to play around and experiment with what would actually help to release it. It changes based on the memory. But then by the end, I was doing about 20-30 min every day, and the intensity was much lower by the end. The intensity and time lowered over time.
Sometimes I find it surprising how beautiful the world is. But it's also like... sometimes I miss the chaotic crazy highs lol. Something I am getting used to is the fact that I don't have anything that I really crave. I like everything and dislike everything in a nonintense way. I can do things that I have to do very easily, but I also don't get the satisfaction that I normally would before from hobbies because it's like everything is just not as intense. It's a strange experience. Maybe I need to find new hobbies to adapt to my new personality (because of healing). I'm working on it. Before, it was super hard to pull myself off a Youtube video or a video game. Now it's effortless.
I also notice that I am not as jaded. Being treated like shit makes me want to leave (love the healing for that), but I don't feel so bothered by it like I would in the past. Before, a friendship breakup or relationship breakup would be really hard. I resorted to isolation because the pain was way too much. But I think I might actually be able to handle a social life. I can get over people and situations so quickly. It's not emotional immunity. It's more so that everything hurts a lot less, and it's a lot easier to get over it.
Also... what shocks me is how easy it is to function as a human being. Like WTFF???????? IT WAS THIS EASY??? No wonder these kids I knew in school who weren't nearly as smart as me could get way better grades. I couldn't brush my teeth and wash my face everyday before because it was so hard. Now it's effortless to do like a normal day of human work. Like WOOHOOOOOOO!!!
There is hope if you are reading this (unless you are terminally ill or something).