In this first‑person video, Diana recounts the onset and progression of a severe post‑viral condition that began after her daughter transmitted a virus from school. Despite extensive medical testing that returned normal results, Diana experienced extreme exhaustion, chronic insomnia lasting two years, severe anxiety with nightly panic attacks, heightened sensitivity to light, sound, and social interaction, and an inability to perform daily tasks or work. She describes how, after joining the Gupta Program, she gradually regained energy and tolerance for sensory input following meditations. Within three months she returned to part‑time work, attended social events, and by December was able to physically pack and move to a new city, indicating substantial recovery. The testimonial highlights the contrast between her debilitating pre‑program state and the incremental improvements she attributes to the program’s practices.
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Hi, my name is Diana. Before I became ill, my life has been actually pretty stressful, and I had a really big health event that happened as well. Then I basically got infected with the virus that my daughter gave me from school, and then after the virus passed, well, my daughter got better, she recovered completely, and I didn't. The fever left and then I just couldn't get out of bed. And that's basically how it started. I was completely exhausted, my body wasn't listening to me, and then I went to the doctor. So they did a bunch of tests and they ran everything and they said, "Well, everything is showing clear. You don't have any infection going on, you don't have any inflammation going on, you're fine." But I felt like a truck has driven over me. When I was in the worst of my illness, I had like a total exhaustion, I had anxiety, very, very severe anxiety, and I had like nightly panic attacks. I would just like wake up in the middle of the night with my heart racing and like this doom feeling of doom. I couldn't handle stress, I couldn't handle anything, any daily tasks, I couldn't handle work. I had a lot of neurological symptoms like I couldn't handle light and sound. I couldn't be in a busy room, I couldn't talk to a person one-on-one for more than 20 minutes. I didn't sleep basically for 2 years that I was ill, I didn't sleep at all. So my life was like a living hell. So I started the program like really slowly and I started noticing that right after the meditation I have a little bit more energy, I could handle more noise outside because when I was really ill going outside on a busy road with cyclists and public transportation and cars. It was too much for me. But then all of a sudden I could handle more and more. And I also noticed that I could talk to people one-on-one. Within 3 months I was able to go to the office for the first time. So I went back to work part-time. I had a birthday in October and I invited some people and we were at the bar and there was music playing. And I came home and I was still kind of capable of doing things around the house. And I wasn't completely exhausted like before. And then later in December we moved to another city and I remember I packed and I packed and every day I was packing and I was exerting, physically exerting myself way more than normally and I knew at that point that okay, I'm really actually now recovering and this is going really well.
