In 2011 I was half of the winning team in the Australian Madman Cosplay Competition, had both my legs sliced by a surgeon and spent over a month recovering, twirled poi on stage in front of over a thousand people, did not get nearly so much fic written as I would have liked (as usual), spent far more time making costumes than I meant to (also as
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I haven't been in a long-term depression but the closest but I have them in intervals, usually lasting a year then the next it'll be all flowers and sunshine then the next would be depression again. It's like the season. Like you said, a cycle, although mine would occur every two years.
I'm glad that you managed to find help, and that it's somehow working for you. :) I'll be sending you positive energies so that you would consistently feel better!
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Heh, I am more inclined to pin my faith on prescription drugs than positive energies these days, but I appreciate it all the same. <3
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I must confess, I never would have guessed that you had problems sitting down and working for solid periods.
Can't blame you, I was having more than my share of trouble getting my head around the idea myself. Suffice to say that didn't exactly help with the getting to a place where I felt like I had any right to ask for outside help.
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This is remarkably similar to what has happened to me, except replace the bit about uni with Uni being... rather unpleasant. Life is pretty good now, but Uni - I don't think I could ever go back to Murdoch with the bad memories I made there. I'd quite like to do a second degree or post-grad somewhere else one day though, so I could appreciate the university life with none of the rubbishy things that were in it before.
But yes, I've had insomnia most of my life and I'd experienced a lot of the other symptoms you mention. I saw a doctor about it about two months ago and I've ended up going on anti-depressants myself, too. (This was the last time I described how it felt until I caved in and saw a doctorI do seem to have been sleeping a little better although the doctor thinks we may need a stronger dose, will see ( ... )
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So, obviously IANAD and I can only guess how similar your insomnia may be to mine, but for me, taking the sleeping pill anti-depressant helped, but what made the real difference was getting put on the second anti-depressant (taken in the morning rather than at night, doesn't make you sleepy). I still do need my sleepy-pills, but I'm taking barely a quarter of the original prescribed dose - any more and I end up sleepy during the day. It seems like getting my head sorted out for daytime purposes was what really mattered. For the last couple of weeks I've been using a high-magnesium multivitamin I picked up in Japan as well (long story), and I've hardly had a bad night since. The ability to, like, go to bed and fall asleep in minutes and not wake up until after 9AM is a novelty I am still adjusting to. If any of that sounds at all useful I am only too happy to trade further notes. <3 ( ... )
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