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a year ago
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Hi peeps, I've put this off too long but I finally got myself to do this: I'm not doing very well mentally wise and these last few months my art drive has been very low. I still get ideas and I want to do more work but when I try I feel frustrated and I give up too easily.
I have a med review next week and maybe it's time to change my meds. In the meantime I'll try to work, maybe if I stream again I could keep myself focused but the past advice of "taking a break, relax, etc" is just not working for my mental health.
Also a quick note: in no shape or form am I suicidal or having self harming thoughts. My greatest fears for this current depressive streak is me disappearing completely from my online pressence and not being able to get back to what I love to do and those that I have some contact with.
I have a med review next week and maybe it's time to change my meds. In the meantime I'll try to work, maybe if I stream again I could keep myself focused but the past advice of "taking a break, relax, etc" is just not working for my mental health.
Also a quick note: in no shape or form am I suicidal or having self harming thoughts. My greatest fears for this current depressive streak is me disappearing completely from my online pressence and not being able to get back to what I love to do and those that I have some contact with.
I hope you find an inspiration spark soon and you find a solution that works for you at your review.
Not my place to say, as I don’t know you, but for me, distraction can help clear the mind, like music.
Hopefully you have your own methods in play.
Especially everyone else’s show of support.
Best wishes.
Arts can be fun! but even with finances, gotta bring home da bacon and yeah, juggle bills. If you're no longer enjoying something, it can be time to take a rest day or evaluate it. We all go through ups and downs and hills and valleys in our life, and it's okay to sometimes just take a breather when we're exhausted climbing a mountain. With varying ends in site.
Sometimes we have to be realistic with the options we have available, and that's not like jump out a window, but perhaps online work, recharge, check out local glass door / trades or job opportunities in area. I've heard some people say you can make 50k-80k usd a year welding /hvac in trades and be ready to do it in 6 months in some areas!
Mean while other people might consider online work or multi tasking, you're a great artist, but it does seem like the economy is slim pickings this year. And there can be a double/triple dip from that.
Money gets leaner for commissioners, who have to save.
More competition/pressure for shrinking wallets
Even the better artists struggle while the pool dries up like a drought, getting smaller.
The pool should be getting bigger but even though they say stress is bad, sometimes it might be a survival response our bodies might have coded in for a reason. If we worry there's a tiger, and there's no tiger, that's a false positive. But if we think there's no tiger, and we get eaten, maybe that's how the genes pass themselves on(?).
If you poof from online work to take balance of your life, im a lapsed former active fur and i say, good for you, picking whatever the healthiest balance in your life might be. Nobody has to slave to amuse anyone, i just kinda view what's out there but i can relate to putting hours into something, only for even 1000 view and 13-50 favs pieces to just seemingly get a click or "nice" and pass.
It's okay for us to examine our relationships to anything, both hobbies, people, or two sided bridges. Not in like a lecture way, but childhood runs out, adulting begins. I feel like i'm happily somewhat moved on. Words are cheap and i know people need money. (Don't we all haha). But.. you know the economy haha.
Self sufficency might not be glamorus or the rockstar life, but at least you can always rely on yourself when you're not sure if others will be there, or want to feel trapped there.