Edit: I've moved my original post into it's own place as I feel that is more appropriate.
December has been Star Wars mania for me and I'm keeping it going by watching the original trilogy today. There's something reassuring about Star Wars for me and its helped greatly to get over bad times, maybe that should be my next blog post!
PS: Sorry for the super long downer but its been important to me to share this with y'all and its been one of those tasks I've struggled to overcome.
In better news I got a Sphero for Christmas and have just gotten it talking to my Raspberry Pi so I can do some fun coding projects (that I intend to take into schools), maybe I should do a write up here!
This is great news Cedar, keep up the productive and strong attitude! I never truly got professional help but looking back, up to the beginning of last year I was definitely depressed, finding myself feeling like a burden and so on. Not as severe as so many others of course, but there's no better feeling than having been down there and gotten back up.
I've been doing CBT with a local NHS service, it's all stuff I already knew so I'm not really sticking with it but it's definitely made me be a bit more aware of what is going on around me and in my head. Main thing I identified I want to work on is stopping my knee jerk reaction which causes me to flip out or do stupid drastic things like deleting work etc.