State of the Silver

Mirrored from Shenanigans - Curiously Lydean.

For most of you this shouldn’t be news, since you came here from a forum, tumblr, facebook, whatever. But, here’s what’s been going on with me and why the blog has been so inactive.

I lost my job in November, lived on unemployment for six months, then scraped by until I couldn’t any more. I now live with my parents (boo) and just got a part time job for a place I worked for before doing graphic art (mostly yay). My depression and anxiety is currently untreated, because my previous GP didn’t bother to listen to me so I quit him.I figured out a few months ago that I have the inattentive form of ADHD when I went to WebMD and saw that I have literally every symptom (except low self esteem) (and my GP refused to give me a prescription for anything – “you should go to a psychiatrist!” “well, yes, but I’m in the middle of moving, unemployed, and have ADD and depression. You wanna help me out?” “you really should see a psychiatrist.” “That’s a no, then, isn’t it?”).

I’m on Medi-cal right now, which makes it tough to find doctors, but I have a psychiatrist appointment in July when I’m hoping to get on medication that will help with all those problems. I’m planning to start therapy again, with someone who actually does CBT, but I know how my plans go, so that may not happen for quite a while.

In happier news, I got pet rats about six months ago who I love and adore. I have a ton of pictures to share and plan on doing a post introducing them, but again, plans and me don’t cooperate very often.

Moodwise, lately I’ve been doing pretty good. Living with my parents (or anyone for that matter) is stressful for me, but it does mean that there are other people who can do things like pick up milk and that there’s a set dinner time, so I won’t be having dinner at 8:00pm when I figure out that low blood sugar is making me depressed.

I’ve been on tumblr less and twitter more since I started my job. And even though the workplace isn’t ideal (too loud, open, and unorganized), doing creative work is a real mood lifter compared with the temp jobs I was getting before (pretty much all repetitive warehouse work).

After this I’m scheduling a post for tomorrow about my current project of fixing up a bed off Craigslist that should be more interesting to people than my conlang.