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If your life stops for more than a couple of weeks then you need to get some help, simply because that is unsustainable for most people, financially and practically. If you are functioning and living but still feeling it, that can obviously go on for longer without being fundamentally bad for you although I would suggest that if you are still greatly unhappy after a year then again you need to seek some help. The residual pain can last for years but should be sporadic and fleeting rather than constant.