just a quick doodle in-between commissions because i've just been feeling so genuinely happy and at ease recently and it's been absolutely lovely.

I suffer from both anxiety and dysthymia, or mild depression (both clinically diagnosed) and it makes it so that i'm just so exhausted and on edge basically 24/7 and it's really been taking it's toll on me the past few months. It also makes it so that happiness is an awful, fleeting feeling so i'm just...sad 99% of the time. Good days are short lived and i'm usually riding out the bad on my own.

But things have been getting better. I'm getting better. And i'm just so thankful for that. I can be happy for more than an hour and enjoy myself. I'm more comfortable and happy than I've been in MONTHS. I'm overcoming those dark days n thoughts with some added help of the few people who've stuck by me through the absolute worst times of my depressive episodes. Couldn't ask for more <3