mhtucker | Entries tagged with mental illness

All right.

Here I am making my fifteenth big return!

No, I am not participating in NaNoWriMo this year. I did camp in the summer and that worked well until I had actual work that had to be submitted by a deadline. Not making that mistake again.

Maybe over the summer I will get going on it. Maybe not.

As always, time will tell.

I have submitted a few things for publishing, but none of them were accepted. This isn't what kept me away from the internet.

Here comes your PSA.

Life with someone who has mental illness isn't easy. It is draining emotionally, physically, and mentally. There are days that you drag yourself out of bed only because you know that if you don't get up the entire household is going to fall down around your shoulders and then you'll be fucked. There aren't many resources for "caregivers" out there and what little exists hasn't been a big help to me. I am exhausted.

Yet, I am still writing.

My secret fanfiction page is stronger than ever, which boosts me up for continued work on my handful of novels and other submissions that are aimed for publication. The novels are all coming along well. I wouldn't say any of them were in a state near to seeking publication, but there are a few that aren't more than a stone's throw off.

Writing when you feel lonely, depressed, and unloved is very, very hard.

I'm pushing through.

I'm trying to press on.

But I'm also trying to take care of myself.