Your body often does a good job of adapting to pain... both physical and mental. I speak from experience. It was ten years ago that I was on this forum doing research and getting some good advice. My attempts (plural) at partial hanging didn't work.... and I gave up because the failures were just making things worse. Over the past ten years, things haven't gotten any better, but I've gotten used to the emotional hell and things don't have the same severe impact that they once did. With that said, I've moved states and I'm planning another try at things with an entirely different method. Time can be a friend in that it lets you make sure that things won't get better... and it lets you do the research needed to get things right the next time around.