i started CPAP about a month ago. the main thing i've noticed in my waking life is, it seems like i don't get as irritated anymore about wack shit. like shit still sucks, but it doesn't seem to fuck my mood up and send me spiraling. the recommendation from the clinic's literature said that it may take upwards of 6+ months to fully recover from the disorders my brain had conditioned itself to over the years from constant oxygen interruptions and induced shallow waking.

after the first weeks i was telling everybody about how i was on it and learning that everybody else was also on it, or their partner was, or some friend they knew. people much younger than me. some guy told me when a good friend of his started, it was like night and day. apparently she had pretty severe mood disorders, like to the point of repeated institutionalization, and the apnea was compounding it. after she started, he said she was like a completely new person. like it didn't "cure" her, but it turned her symptoms down enough to manage them.