Hi all, wanted to make a journal to confirm I'm still about.
My year's off to a bit of a difficult start, with a lot of stuff to get done: medical stuff, legal stuff, stuff stuff - the list looks kind of daunting. It's also overshadowed by loss, which certainly doesn't make things easier.
I don't know why art has been so difficult for me lately: I still think of things to draw, but really struggle to start and get pics near-finished, and even if I do I find it remarkably difficult to spend the last hour on them, or even to upload the actually-finished ones. I've heard similar stories from people who turned out to have undiagnosed ADHD, but getting that diagnosis in the UK at the moment is meant to be very difficult, and I'm not sure I have the time/energy for that right now.My art difficulty has tied in with difficulty reaching out to friends: I'd been finding it harder and harder to want to catch up with them. Harder to take the first steps, and often the conversation would feel