How I'm Dealing with S.A.D
Lately, I haven't been feeling like myself. Since about October, when the air became colder and my first winter season away from my alma mater loomed before me, I've been a bit off. I had just started a full time job (ew) in a very soul-sucking industry, discovered I was not anywhere closer to landing an actual writing job, was going on six months being away from my long-distance boyfriend, and generally felt stuck and lost. I found myself becoming a weird kind of depressed I'd never quite felt before. Each morning when I woke up to go to work, the day immediately started with a stomachache. I found it heard to eat breakfast and drink my coffee, which is normally my favorite part of my morning time, and I would drive to work practically in tears already--I felt like I was driving myself to prison every day, only to spend 8 hours doing nothing but watching the clock and feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and uninspired. It hasn&#