[Edited]
6 months ago
Hello y'all!
And especially hello commissioners! I planned to do all my remaining tradi NFC comms this week, but shit hit the fan (I wrote about it on my Bsky) and I am unable to do much. I feel deeply exhausted and low-functioning right now. I will do my best to get the promised art drawn as far as I can, but I have no idea when this will be.
Thanks so much for everyone's patience with me.
Edit: I wrote an Update here
And especially hello commissioners! I planned to do all my remaining tradi NFC comms this week, but shit hit the fan (I wrote about it on my Bsky) and I am unable to do much. I feel deeply exhausted and low-functioning right now. I will do my best to get the promised art drawn as far as I can, but I have no idea when this will be.
Thanks so much for everyone's patience with me.
Edit: I wrote an Update here
Positive vibes!
I'm also AuDHD and currently live in the US, which I'm sure you've heard the horror stories of our healthcare here. I experienced a dopamine crash and across-the-board burnout from lack of diagnosis/treatment that led to e being hospitalized in order to be diagnosed. I was finally prescribed ADHD medicine towards the end of my stay, and the path afterwards was full of emotional turmoil and stress as I began to truly register my emotions again. It was hard, but on the other side of it was true and lasting recovery. I feel like my true self again, and able to feel the itch/joy of making comics (something I once held special-interest in, that the burnout had thoroughly killed for me, or so I thought). I never thought I would get to find joy in my art again, nevertheless having ideas for comics.
TLDR; It is going to be a hard recovery, but it is actually possible. Be kind to yourself, take your time, and don't give up. You have so much skill as an artist and render large bodies so beautifully. Your work is an inspiration to me.
I wish you the best~
Also sorry you have to live in such a medical shitshow :^/ I often can't believe how heinous it is over there in that regard. People's health is just treated like a luxury item. That's so messed up.
But I'm glad you finally got access to medication! And joy in arting again, that is so cool! If you say, you were finally able to register your emotions again, it makes me so curious. I haven't thought about that possibility, but I was also diagnosed with chronic depression/dysthermia and my emotions are just super flat or non existent all the time, even if I know they should be there? It's weird and it's not actively painful or a hurdle on one hand, but it leads and led to other problems and it's also part of the whole mess I'm in right now. Super interesting now to see if medication can kinda ... restart that for me?
<3<3<3 Ah gosh, you are so nice! It's such an honor to be an inspiration. Hope you have a lot of fun creating <3 I'm currently hopeful it can get better and I already feel like I'm making progress :^)
Thanks!