If you're a reader who flipped-out*, as Blue Fringe might put it, you're cordially invited to compose a guest post. Tell us what it was like after 5 or 6 years. Did you have any regrets or second thoughts? Did you find it difficult to avoid your old friends and behavior patterns? Did the ferver ever subside? &c.
Flipped-out (flĭp-ed out)
adj
1. Intoxicated with religion to the point of impaired mental faculties.
2. Overcome by strong religious feeling or emotion esp. as an 18 or 19 year old, after having spent a year or two in an Israeli seminary: "Barry's so flipped-out he carries a sefer in his hand wherever he goes - even at the movies!"