Update On My Health (Feb 5, 2025)

It’s been a little while since I’ve done an official update, so I guess it’s overdue!

As many know, in 2019, I began a journey to get off drugs, alcohol, other negative coping strategies, and psychiatric medications. In 2022, my psychiatrist (who’s actually a psychotherapist, meaning he offers both medications and therapy), got on board and decided to aid and support me in coming off of all psychiatric medications. As of this year, we will have been working together for 24 years. I started seeing him when I was 15.

He told me today that I’m doing well and therefore he can’t justify continuing to see me on a monthly basis; we need to space our appointments further apart. I understand this is great news yet I’m feeling sad about it. Chatting to someone *at least* once a month, for an hour at a time, for 24 years, from such a young age, is a long working relationship. He and I definitely had our spat when I was detained under the Mental Health Act in 2021-2022; however we’ve worked through a lot since then so as to rebuild the trust in our relationship. I genuinely enjoy chatting with the man.

I don’t often get to experience the kinds of conversations in which I thrive; my psychiatrist and my psychologist are some of the few whom I truly get to go into those depths with; as they’re able to meet me there when many are not. So yeah! I know this is good news, yet I’m feeling bittersweet about it.

Here are all my clocks, to date, from the Nomo app. I don’t drink caffeinated coffee either and haven’t in years, but I don’t have a clock for that. I included my employment in Healthcare as a clock just to keep track of it. Every other clock is how long I’ve abstained, been off, or been away from something. It’s a happy tears kinda day. 🫂🥲

Sometime this year I’ll also have 18 years off of hard drugs (mainly cocaine, but anything I could get my hands on). This is the first time I’ve set a clock for it as these types of apps didn’t exist back then. This clock is an approximate guess.