I didn't even really give it much thought for the last two or three months. My psychiatrist brought up spending time in social settings. Now it's bugging me because I'm thinking about it again. It's not exactly a newsflash that I'm not terribly fond of socializing. Well... yes and no. As I often like to say, "I hate people but I love persons." I have a difficult time in large social settings with lots of people. Too much stimulation. It gets me tired very quickly. On the other hand, I enjoy conversing one-on-one with another person. Listening to someone's thoughts and feelings offers something more substantive. There's closeness being built in those moments. I like being able to give someone my full attention and receive that in return. Right now I just feel... burnt out. There may be a few reasons for that. I had to ration my meds for the last couple of days and my birthday is coming up, which inevitably makes me restless about my station i
I'm hesitant to talk about all this. I want to share how much my mental health has been improving. At the same time, I worry that my sharing of certain realizations will make me come across as big-headed and delusional. I guess I still have a lot to work on where my insecurities are concerned. I started working on a screenplay around a month ago. The impetus sprung from the restlessness of being a 30 year old man that's surrounded by people who are moving forward in their lives. These are peers of my age and even much younger who are married, have families, or are in their career of choice. Comparatively speaking, I am stagnant in this area of life. I'm not in the place I had hoped that I would be in a decade ago. But the screenplay isn't really about that anymore. It went down an alternate but related path. Instead, I've chosen to focus on depicting the struggles of a man with depression. I wanted to show how he perceives the world through the prism that is despa