Not great. Addictions are running at full speed now. The political climate here in the US is so fucking depressing.
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Can’t really do much other than smoke weed to calm down myself now. I feel you compadre
I've been working in my mental for a while and i can fele the improvements.
Isn't it wonderful when you start go get those first glimmers that things are getting better?
Better than usual. Which is not saying much, since I've had suicidal thoughts almost every day despite all the therapy and meds. But I did an hour of work today on a project that was due May 2024 (now trying for the 2025 deadline), which is more than most weeks of the past 9 months. I've been keeping myself from new Linux installs and other major time sinks for all that time, hoping I'd find a miracle cure. But nope, looks like I'll have to fight my inattentiveness and depression the hard way. At least I'm motivated to finish the project so I can get my laptop running the way I want.
What's the project?
Bachelor's thesis
Ooh fun. I did mine while I was still in the figuring shit out part of my depression. Managed a C but looking back in it, god damn it was not good, bit embarrassing really.
If it's of any help, I just recently completed my degree that I started 10 years ago. Clinical depression just ruined my education, and it took a lot of time to get over the anxiety of going back to finish it. But, eventually I did get there. If I can do it, you can too.
you can't make me, and, doesn't matter anyhow. Reading the news is enough to give you depression, and no amount of sunny disposition is going to make the next four years of existing any less shit. Assuming it ends in four years at all.
I'm at the point even my anger and sadness got bored and fucked off and I just don't really feel or think at all.
And that's what's fucking scary to me.
Being desperate and sicker was worse physically and exhausting, but at least I believed in something. Now I just don't fucking care.
Remember when Elmo asked and everyone dumped their collective grief him? Ya, it’s only gotten far worse.
I'm so fucking tired
I am confused.
Honestly, pretty shitty. Given the political climate of my home (US) is exacerbating the problems I already face between untreated ADHD, depression, and who knows what else, I've just been dissociating the days away.