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[In an effort to use FB more for socializing and my blog more for my writings on my life, I am copying old content from there to here with the title prefix "Archive:". This was originally posted to FB on 14 April 2018.] TL;DR Fuck depression. I'm taking a leave from my job, starting Thursday, for 2–4 months, not sure exactly. Afterwards, I will return to Plethora because I like it there. I have found that my demons' power is magnified when they are allowed to fight in the dark, so I try to fight them out here in the light. My perfectionist leanings are mortified on so many levels right now. But I need to normalize talking about this shit. I refer to my experience as depression. But it is a stubborn and intelligent adversary that contains multitudes, finding creative ways to evade the progress I make and mount new challenges. So sometimes it is outright depression, sometimes it is anxious or obsessive-compulsive, sometimes it feels like a cloak of Asperger's, and sometimes I just can't

[ In an effort to use FB more for socializing and my blog more for my writings on my life, I am copying old content from there to here with the title prefix "Archive:". This was originally posted to FB on 14 April 2018. ] TL;DR Fuck depression. I'm taking a leave from my job, starting Thursday, for 2–4 months, not sure exactly. Afterwards, I will return to Plethora because I like it there. I have found that my demons' power is magnified when they are allowed to fight in the dark, so I try to fight them out here in the light. My perfectionist leanings are mortified on so many levels right now.

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