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Feb. 26th, 2017 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI was having a depressive episode a little earlier tonight. The worst one since I started on the new meds, which is to say not that bad in comparison. But I still felt like lying on the floor and doing nothing, nothing seemed worthwhile, blah blah. I permitted myself some extra ice cream and am feeling better. And I haven't even gone over my calorie total today, which I feel good about. I've been managing that so much better over the last couple weeks.
After ice cream, and spurred by the occasional notifications I get from people I really care about over in Facebook land, I thought more about that venue. I decided to start going back there, but in a more controlled way. Here's the post I just wrote there:
"I'm going to be on Facebook again semi-regularly. At least, I think I will. It's a grudgingly-made decision. There are people on Facebook who I don't communicate with in any other medium who I'd really like to stay in touch with.
Because of that, I removed a bunch of names from my friends list and will probably remove more. People I don't remember, dead people, people who never post anything but games and memes, blah blah blah. I want Facebook to be as low-aggravation an experience for me as it can be, so I will likely make liberal use of the unfriending tool, and be quite judicious about adding new people. It's likely not personal. It's just that my goals for my use of Facebook are not in line with those of the vast majority of Facebook users, so there often isn't a good mesh.
I may get frustrated again and leave. I may stay. I dunno. For the moment, I'm going to cross-post from my Livejournal, which includes a lot of stuff about my mental health, therapy, daily goings-on, hobbies, activities, and whatever. It's important to me that there be less of a stigma about mental health, and being 'out of the closet' on that topic is a small thing I can do to work toward that goal.
I guess the only other thing to say here is that I have little to no patience for conservative social politics these days. In an ideal world, I'd be up to having what would hopefully be a productive conversation about the issue that we could both learn from. This is not an ideal world, and I'll probably just unfriend you if it's in your space, and unfriend you with great prejudice if it's in my space.
Feel free to unfriend me without hurting my feelings, and I'll do the same for you. Life is too short to make ourselves needlessly unhappy."
After ice cream, and spurred by the occasional notifications I get from people I really care about over in Facebook land, I thought more about that venue. I decided to start going back there, but in a more controlled way. Here's the post I just wrote there:
"I'm going to be on Facebook again semi-regularly. At least, I think I will. It's a grudgingly-made decision. There are people on Facebook who I don't communicate with in any other medium who I'd really like to stay in touch with.
Because of that, I removed a bunch of names from my friends list and will probably remove more. People I don't remember, dead people, people who never post anything but games and memes, blah blah blah. I want Facebook to be as low-aggravation an experience for me as it can be, so I will likely make liberal use of the unfriending tool, and be quite judicious about adding new people. It's likely not personal. It's just that my goals for my use of Facebook are not in line with those of the vast majority of Facebook users, so there often isn't a good mesh.
I may get frustrated again and leave. I may stay. I dunno. For the moment, I'm going to cross-post from my Livejournal, which includes a lot of stuff about my mental health, therapy, daily goings-on, hobbies, activities, and whatever. It's important to me that there be less of a stigma about mental health, and being 'out of the closet' on that topic is a small thing I can do to work toward that goal.
I guess the only other thing to say here is that I have little to no patience for conservative social politics these days. In an ideal world, I'd be up to having what would hopefully be a productive conversation about the issue that we could both learn from. This is not an ideal world, and I'll probably just unfriend you if it's in your space, and unfriend you with great prejudice if it's in my space.
Feel free to unfriend me without hurting my feelings, and I'll do the same for you. Life is too short to make ourselves needlessly unhappy."
