Hi guys, I've had this condition twice and now I have not long recovered for the 2nd time. And without a shadow of a doubt, I believe that this condition is a growth on the spiritual journey.
To truly evolve the psyche, I believe one has to feel nothing and in despair- to understand the importance of this experience for your spirit.
Before the 1st onset I was a high achieving student at sixth form, just about to do my exams. Then this hit me. I was a student very interested in western medicine and considering going into medical school; after I completed my exams.
After I had recovered (1st time), I got to see 1st hand what western medicine was doing to people. Researching alternative approaches because medicine wasn't helping, I began to connect the ambiguities that had been plaguing my onset on to a spiritual evolutionary change. Although, when I started to change the things I'd eat and generally what I would do, I started to recover. And my new perception was completely different. I became a follower of the Buddhist approach and became heavily spiritual (I was before, but it was egotistic in a sense), this was pure.
Then I started to work in a place about 2 years later that was completely stressing me out and was physically/mentally exhausting.
I got ill again, literally a week before my probation ended at the job. I quit straight away and this time I was ill for longer, by 3 months-first time was 9 months; this time a year.
I had always struggled with severe anxiety, was extremely quiet. However since I have been better, all and I mean all of my insecurities have diminished. When I walk into a room I feel completely different to than before. I talk to anyone, my diet is strictly organic now, I feel as though I have a telepathic understanding with the universe and can predict things, intuitively. This innate sense of purpose and mystical'ity' have only developed after the 2nd time that I was ill.
Depending on what you believe in, I want to share my understanding from a metaphysical point of view.
We all go through this 'transformation' in order to purge your body of everything that it had been carrying over the course of our lives. People who have this condition, 9/10, weren't living a sustained life and the spirit needed to shake you to make you look within. With this condition you can't be looking out at the external world expecting doctors and other people to take control. It's asking you to look within and change aspects of yourself that don't serve you. I also believe that people who have this condition have a spiritual/mystical gift. Although some don't know it yet. But when you recover it all comes to you.
This is an illness that inspires you to be the best person you can be once you escape the torture.