end of 2021 - where have I been?

hey all,

thought I'd go about providing an update regarding where I've been for the last two months. It was never my intention to miss two posts, nor do I intend to keep doing it, but I've just been very separate overall from everything lately.

unfortunately, I've been in the grips of an aggressive depressive episode which just will not let up or get better in any way, and all the help I've tried to get for it so far has fallen through.

This has caused my motivation to go way down, and made it a lot harder for me to do mentally taxing things such as work or advocacy, meaning I've fallen behind the cycle of what's going on in the community and have therefore had trouble keeping up enough and staying informed enough to feel comfortable writing posts for the blog.

after the new year, I hope to be back to myself a bit more. Want to focus on putting time into work and advocacy and everything I've abandoned due to my low energy lately.

hopefully there'll be a January post as normal, but just wanted to catch people up with this quick post on where I've been and why I've been gone for two months without a word

the blog isn't abandoned, I very much intend to keep going with it, I'm just going through some stuff and it may take a little while to be back on schedule again.

thanks for all your patience, hope everyone who celebrates had a very merry christmas, and a happy, healthy new year to everyone.

- Josh.