Hi again Firestormalpha. Congrats to your family
Hope the job search goes well for you, what field are you looking in?
Things have been a bit up and down with me, but mainly up. I had to suspend my final year studies back in early March or so because my anti-depression medication was messing me up so badly I couldn't work. After having my dosage pinged back and forth like a yoyo for a year (it has seen been shown that the dosages I was on have been linked to severe irregular heartbeats in some people, among other things, thankfully I seem to have got away unharmed and actually better off) I got told a few weeks back to try and take myself off them, as they were no longer working, and I would benefit from being on something else. However, while I'm having some rather nasty side effects from having stopped (my brain isn't used to the lack of serotonin floating around) I've started wondering if, now things which were making my life bad (people causing me mental, emotional and physical abuse) have gone, might I be able to cope without said pills? So I think I'm going to try and get by for at least a few months, with regular checkups. See if I can get by.
And I start back for the second go at my final year in two or three weeks. I've already finished my dissertation as I had several months where I had nothing else to do, and I did the first semester field work last year, and my marks for it are being held until this year. Just as well, I don't want to redo it - I nearly got buried under a rock fall and broke a couple of fingers in a German quarry.
I ended a four year relationship back in November last year. I'd changed too much, he hadn't, and I wasn't happy any more. Since then, I've started seeing someone else, we semi-moved in together for a couple of months when I was homeless (I have my own place with a couple of friends now), and we've been going along pretty well for over six months now.
So yeah, things are going fairly well. I've decided that I've been being too passive in my life, and there is no point me sitting around and whining about things and then not going out and doing anything about them. Yeah, I still get badly depressed some days and I probably always will, but I'm just going to have to do my best to work round it and make the most of the days that I'm happy.
And I managed to stay out of the way of the riots that were all over England a few weeks back. They got pretty close to my parent's house, but they never really took off where I live - Probably because I'm in a city with a very active naval base, and they don't take too kindly to that sort of nonsense.
And being off my pills and coming back to all you lovely chaps seems to have made me a darn sight more talkative than I used to be
