Some goal setting, and more discussion of mental health
After what feels like a very long and guilty pause, I have finally caught up with the flist. I love that feeling of relief and satisfaction that being up to date on something brings
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Toughing it out is a perfectly valid choice as long as you feel like you're coping. When I made the decision to stop taking my ADD meds, it was because I felt fully aware of the downsides of both taking and not taking anything, and on balance I preferred living with the symptoms I was more used to. I wasn't diagnosed until I was 19, so it's not like I didn't have practice at it! But there are times where I don't think I do cope with it very well, and I just want to be "normal", and my whole life can get unnecessarily messy to an extent where I just cannot function. I've found the hardest thing about toughing it out is knowing where the boundary is between "not great but coping" and "oh crap get help because the shit is about to hit the fan" and recognising when that boundary has been crossed and doing something about it before any fecal matter can come into contact with cooling devices.
I love my D&D group. My partner DMs, and we have a group of anywhere between 4 and 7 players- all friends. I totally hear you on not having time/inclination to find a group like that though!
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