Raising My Bar — An Introduction

What does one do after experiencing a complete nervous breakdown? How does one recover from a series of events so traumatic that it’s hard to trust even the closest of friends? When is the right time to return to creating content? Lately I’ve been spending my share of time wrangling with these, and so many other questions that have been plaguing my brain. The complete details of everything that happened to bring me to this point are too long for a blog post, such as this. Suffice to say, over the past 2 years I’ve experienced the end of long-term relationship, living in a place that could potentially be negatively impacting my health, being disrespected by a prominent figure in the community, seeing friends turn on one another, being mistreated by multiple healthcare providers, and experiencing threats of imminent violence to myself and my friends on the convention scene….to name a few. It’s not easy to be an extrovert with social anxiety — I essentially need social interaction in order to thrive, but often times over the last couple of years I have had too much fear to actually interact. The simplest way to put it is that my brain essentially went, if I can’t trust healthcare providers and the members of my own community, I can’t really trust anyone. That’s a gross oversimplification, but it’s true — I don’t think I’ve been able to fully trust a single person in my life for over a year now. <a href="https://medium.com/@keepingfriendshipmagic/raising-my-bar-an-introduction-3a4d32e602d0">Visit Now</a>