Favorite Blogs and Websites
- Managing Your Digital Life Dealing with and using all the electronic stuff we accumulate
- Photofocus Formerly TWIP… photographic news and reviews
The Strobist
THE place to go to to learn about lighting… Also a lot of info on making your own photo gear.
Tag Archives: depression
Bluejacket 2.0
Well… That was a bust.
Actually, that’s kind of harsh, I suppose. I mentally crashed a few months ago, and have finally shaken off the latest (but probably not last) depressive episode. Now I can start doing semi-useful things, such as take photos (or rather “make photos”), stock my online stores, and write in this blog.
I’m about a year and a half behind where I wanted to be at this point, financially, professionally, and personally. The good news is that I haven’t done anything foolish yet like quitting my day job, so the only thing damaged is my self esteem. That’s fairly battered already, though, so it really doesn’t matter.
So we’ll pick up where we left off, more or less.
Stay tuned. Things are either about to get interesting again, or very boring.
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Where are the posts? Or… Depression Sucks!
Well, theoretical readers (and I have Google Analytics, so I know what my traffic is like), this blog is somewhat like a ghost town lately… Why is that? Why should you invest your time in reading something that seems to get updated quarterly?
Well, despite my promises to the contrary, I’ve been slacking. It’s not from a lack of ideas; I have about a half dozen ideas for posts. It’s not for lack of time; I’m not living the life of a pro photographer, always on the go, shooting weddings and sporting events.
The truth is, I’ve been suffering from depression for a while, and I’ve barely been able to muster the will to get up to work in the morning, let alone do anything approaching being creative or productive.
This is an ongoing thing, and I’ve been getting help for it for a while, with only moderate success. I’m going to try some different things, because when the blackness seeps into my life, everything seems too hard to bother with, all my work seems worthless and crappy…
And there’s no way I can be a success (let alone make a living) with an attitude like that.
This is what it feels like sometimes
