A year ago today

[vivien]

Last year I had a nervous meltdown (not quite a breakdown). A friend rescued me that day and helped me initiate care from my new doctor. I got more help than I ever expected. I started down a long path to get better and to sell my awful condo, which was the main thing making my life so difficult that I couldn't get out from under the pressure of it. What kept me going then is by saying that I knew in a year things would be better. And they are.

I'm not the same person I was last year, and I'm so thankful for that. Every day I have sunlight from my apartment windows,  instead of feeling like a mushroom in a dark hole. I don't startle at weird sounds, I don't hold my breath when I hear a water gurgle. This place is not perfect, and I plan to move next year, but for right now, I'm right where I need to be.