Coming out of my Anxiety Spiral
10 years ago
It has been a rough couple years for me and as usual I've done the easy thing and just avoided anything and everything that would cause me more stress. Unfortunately that means that I've been off FA and DA and pretty much anything drawing related. Other than a few undelivered commissions, I've also had to bail on a larger project that I was going to be undertaking with a close friend, and it's really stopped me from doing art in any large scale.
Collage from 2011-2013 really took a tole on my mental health, which has never been great. I try really hard to mask and ignore anything I feel is "Crazy", but when you can't mask the symptoms, it's easier to just withdraw into yourself and not make people worry about you.
Just after Fur-Eh last summer I had a falling out with my Best Friend. We've spoken once since then, to return personal items. This pretty much reset any gains I was making on getting back to normal, and socializing like I had planned.
It's 2015 now, and in 2015 you can do what you want to do so:
I turned 30 last Saturday and I got my drivers licences on Friday.
I have a job I love with really good people.
I'm taking my life back from the Depression, Anxiety and Avoidance.
Collage from 2011-2013 really took a tole on my mental health, which has never been great. I try really hard to mask and ignore anything I feel is "Crazy", but when you can't mask the symptoms, it's easier to just withdraw into yourself and not make people worry about you.
Just after Fur-Eh last summer I had a falling out with my Best Friend. We've spoken once since then, to return personal items. This pretty much reset any gains I was making on getting back to normal, and socializing like I had planned.
It's 2015 now, and in 2015 you can do what you want to do so:
I turned 30 last Saturday and I got my drivers licences on Friday.
I have a job I love with really good people.
I'm taking my life back from the Depression, Anxiety and Avoidance.
ErraticShepnerd
~erraticshepnerd
Glad to know that you're getting out of your funk! :D
lainenyah
~lainenyah
OP
Getting my drivers license was the real confidence booster I needed. I'll get back to my old self one day, or rather a better version of myself!
Shayminxboy
~shayminxboy
Absolutely splendid to hear! I don't even know you, but here's rooting! c:
lainenyah
~lainenyah
OP
Thanks for the encouragement!
NaniMoose
~nanimoose
Woo! Glad to see you around again.
lainenyah
~lainenyah
OP
Thanks Nani =3
Dobes Crusher
~van-weasel
Anxiety is rough. I hope things continue looking up.
lainenyah
~lainenyah
OP
Thanks! All these good vibes from my furrends, make me smile =3
SlickScale
~slickscale
Well done! That's a tough combo to beat, but you're doing it. I'm still struggling with myself but it helps to know that others are going through the same thing and managing to overcome it.
lainenyah
~lainenyah
OP
I live with the hope that one day we might be free from it entirely!
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