Hello!
Yes. You read that right. I have decided to become the next Pope. I will be FABULOUS.
The first thing I would bring in is marriage for all! Or maybe just the gays, see how the straight people like it when a basic right of love is taken away.
The second thing I bring in is kittens for all. Everyone should have at least one fifteen minute period of petting a kitten a day.
I made a rainbow sloth.
They are a really odd shape! As you know I am transitioning into being an adult at the moment. I have a wedding in a few months and a new house on the horizon.
Here is the spare bedroom's wallpaper -

DINOSAUR ROOM.
Why? Because we can! Someone asked if it was the nursery. We said no, it is our Dinosaur room. :')
Mental health still not super. Got a psychologist type person coming around on Wednesday, to my house! MY HOUSE. Last safe retreat invaded!
So hopefully I will be back in action soon. I have missed giving dA all my love.
Hope you are all awesome.
Thank you for all the love, stock use and avatar wearing you do! It's awesome and it is not unnoticed.











I LOVE the dinosaur room. I love that you have a "dinosaur room". Perfect.
Best of luck with the mental health. I struggled on and off, for years, before finding that my biggest trigger was a food allergy (go figure). I'm still on the neurotic end of the scale, but just wanted to tell you that happiness and serenity is absolutely possible, to keep working through it however you need, and that you have my best wishes!
A food allergy? That is a weird trigger. The body and mind is a strange beast, it takes only a little prodding and it goes off on a crazy journey of it's own!
I have Celiac Disease, and gluten seems to trigger anxiety, depression, neuropathy, and proprioception weirdness. Maybe it's more of a gluten intolerance reaction (because the autoimmune reaction of CD is supposed to take weeks/months, rather than the mere hours it takes before I feel sick -- but I tested positive for CD, so that's definitely a factor). Even in the beginning, my anxiety was a bit weird -- seemingly without trigger, elevated heart rate lasting for days, super thirsty, and extra sensitive to light and sound. I "managed" it (and my narcoleptic alter-ego) for about ten years before I became suddenly and severely sick. I was finally sick enough (fainting, losing weight, abdominal pains and chills, chronic dehydration no matter how much I drank) that many tests were done, and I ultimately tested positive for CD (one day after giving up and accepting the endo's diagnosis of plain old "it's all in your head" anxiety). Thank heavens my primary doc did that last test. It's now finally recognized that autoimmune disorders can cause mental illness, from depression and anxiety in thyroid disease (which I also have), to anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (which I wish no one ever had to suffer from). We have so much to learn about the connections between body and mind! It's exciting to learn about, but also frustrating that medicine is still so primitive in this area. There may be many of us for whom the pathology starts and ends inside the cranium, but my experience has taught me to be dubious of anxiety and depression as disorders in of themselves, rather than symptoms of systemic body-mind illness. I'll hop off my soapbox now!
It is really good of your doctor to realize what was going on - I do think everything is connected and sometimes I think they like to pass things off as done with too soon.