I am thinking twice of sharing my experience with recon because I am glad you’re not feeling them. Whenever I feel what I say may affect someone negatively or it’s not constructive, I refrain.
That said, I was (am) also dealing with a lot of turmoil and life changes, it has definitely affected my state of mind and equilibrium.
In short, the usual: The sadness, lethargy, irritation and intense desire to change my stack.
Summary
Long answer.
All these subs contributed something beautiful to my life, and the recon is but a very small part of it; To answer the question, it’s kind of different for the subs I’m using.
With EQ, my fuse is shorter.
Now that I am off DR, I noticed that on my last run of EQ, I am a lot more irritable and my patience for things that doesn’t make much sense to me is almost nil. It’s not my way to be rude, or hurtful with my words, so I took note of that. I didn’t want to speak or connect with people, I wanted to be left alone.
I also felt every bad news that came my way was a challenge manifestation; Which I recognize is nonsense, like many people, I’ve been going through rough personal challenges way before subs.
That’s my reason for investing in subs, to help me fix my life, enjoy and live happier with the people dear to me.
On Stark… I felt emotional, lacking in internal strength and brain fog. I couldn’t express myself.
On DR (namely ST2), I felt despair, like all is lost, what’s the point.
Khan ST2, there was a mixture of the recon from DR plus slight depression. It’s interesting cause I went through ST1 and ST2 without blinking, and yet when I’m about to start the “fun” stages of ST3 and ST4, that’s when I faltered. The mind is very tricky.
On WANTED, lethargy, laziness and lack of productivity.
Interestingly enough, as I type this, I don’t remember much recon from PS or AM.
PS actually made me feel happier, the hunter part was fun and exhilarating, but it’s way down my priority. My only hesitation with PS is that my concious decision to suppress the inclination to hunt might trigger a recon.
RM and HoM, not so much recon too but I wasn’t able to run them longer.
The recon stabilized after sometime, I’m glad I recognized them when I did, and was able to at least compartmentalize what was recon and what simply life happening.
On all these, I felt the extreme desire to change stacks, and read about other subs, convincing myself to change, that I needed something else all along. That the answer was right under my nose.
So all that recon thought me that when I feel the extreme desire to change subs, it’s most probably recon and I should snap out of it, or stop reading interesting journals until I feel I am back to being balanced and objective.