Please confirm existence

[woodface]

I'm here, I'm here. Sorta. It's a lovely Sunday in which I'm procrastinating doing chores and I figure doing an update here might just be be the way to do it. So what's up with me?

Comments

[amilyn]

It is SO great to see you. You'll have to send me your current address so I don't send postcards to the wrong one.

Elf is TOTALLY into Attack on Titan and the Attack on Space spoof/fan-made thing.

It sounds like things are progressing well for you and I'm SO impressed with how hard you're working and how much you've accomplished. That's some HARD STUFF there.

I'm trying to get more active and it's HARD...so, GO YOU for doing it and for listening to your body. Also, I think (as someone with depression and anxiety) that if you're feeling like you're "starting to *feel*" again..."depression" is a totally fair word; in a lot of depression it's that absence of being able to experience full range of emotion that is the defining and revealing symptom. It's great to hear that the cloud is lifting for you.

[woodface]

Awwww, see. You're one of the reasons I miss this place. *hugs*

Huh, I should look into that spoof. AoT is a hard series, but it's fun. I hope she's fangirling Mikasa. ;o)

I don't know if it's the hard stuff. I feel like I haven't even gotten near hard stuff. But it's better than it was so I'll take that.

And dude, dunno. Just don't know. Maybe, maybe that makes sort of sense, but I always feel like depression is something a lot more serious than what I am. I dunno.

Okay, where can I mail my address to?

[amilyn]

Then go with dysthymia rather than depression. It's still HARD to have a shadow over your life and mind. And remember that you had a LOT of upheaval and adjustment that you had to make in your 20s; that shifts your ability to focus on "typical" 20s activities (and, wow, do I know from that).

Best place for address is amilynh at comcast dot net.

I know I've HEARD the name Mikasa, so that tells you something....

[woodface]

See, I don't think I had a lot of upheaval. I have a pretty cushiony life over here so I dunno. But that wiki stuff makes sorta sense. Ugh.

Mikasa is awesome, she has excellent taste!

[amilyn]

The upheaval with your dad and renegotiating your entire family...that was HUGE.

And when social interaction is hard to begin with...well, those are always just added difficulties.

Family is hard. One's 20s are hard.

(And have you gotten postcards before?)

[woodface]

Okay, there's that. Still hate his gut, by the way. I'm so glad I don't have to see him every day anymore. He's getting worse as he grows older, too. Still, feels like it should be peanuts, you know. There's worse?

[amilyn]

"There's worse" doesn't make other things "better" or "easy." Don't sell your own struggles short. (Also edited myself above...)

[woodface]

LOL. You edited. And I did. I got one where you were in England and there's the family letters, but that's been a while, didn't you do the last one digital?

[amilyn]

Yay for postcards from England. I was GOING to do a family letter this Christmas...but I didn't get it done. We even had family photos made. *sigh*