No it was much worse than that... It is a long story so I am not sure if you want to go over it. Anyway, if you are really interested, you can take a look at the spoiler below.
I went to the movie not realizing I had already gone over my obsession limit of Eva, and the movie experience effectively broke me. I was under such a turmoil of emotions, mostly negative ones - frustration, pain, unhappiness, regret, sadness, anger, that I tried even harder on obsession over Eva, digging more books, reading material I could find, trying to find some salvation that I could see something positive about what happened in EoE and its ending. Soon I got really tired and weary about the whole thing and the full backlash came back to me, and I felt disgusted at myself of having put so much time and effort just to be happy with myself. A few other big changes also happened in real life at that time which forced me to switch focus and devoted time to issues in real life. I just pulled myself out from everything I was doing with Eva, and very soon I was not watching anime or reading manga any more. The Eva stuff that I got over the years either got lost (or sold) during later house moving, or sealed in some boxes away from my sight.
Over the next 10 years I basically removed anime/manga from my life and did not try to think much about it -- so powerful was the backlash. I never thought that I grew out of anime and I did not have any bad feeling against anime. It was just that I had gone so tired after all the Eva experience -- I did not want to become obsessive with another anime like Eva, and I did not know I never had a real closure with my Eva journey.
Nothing in the ensuing years gave me reason to go back to anime. Life in reality was enough to keep me busy anyway, until almost 2 years ago when I got hospitalized. This gave me a chance to adjust my priorities of my life -- that was the time I picked up manga reading again. A few months later my cousin came to visit me in Japan and he expressed interest to see what Akihabara was like. I had not been there for 10 years and our exploration gave me a sense of how much I had missed on anime during all those years and how interesting the anime world had become (in the 90s Akihabara was more a place for electric appliance and computer than an anime otaku paradise like now). We went to a doujin store and the very well drawn covers of the doujin EVA RE-TAKE caught my eyes. Although I did not buy them then, it stayed in my mind so much that I later went there and bought two volumes of the series. Again I was buying something I did not know what to expect but it was the first Eva stuff I had bought for a long time. I read it with some trepidation thinking it may be the same bad sex stuff I had read previously in Eva doujinshi, but was overjoyed to find that the artstyle was close enough to the original and there was a world view that was quite close to the original world, with a plot that arguably had even more twists than the original Eva. I got the rest of the series later and there I found the most satisfactory ending that closed out the ending in EoE with a very positive spin (albeit through a lot of ordeals) for Asuka my most favorite character ever. It had been a long time since I experienced such a sense of exhilaration and I realized this had been the closure I did not have (but never knew) when I watched EoE. I was so happy to join discussion of RETAKE that I went to Internet to search for groups that would discuss that doujin, and this is how I found this forum Evageeks. I soon restarted in full force my exposure to anime, trying to catch up as much as possible the development of anime over the previous 10 years, devouring anime after anime (the much more developed Internet was a great help in this). And basically this is where I am now, even more otaku than before but perhaps a much healthier one too.
And this is also why I had that signature and avatar pic.