I'm a slave to the Power of Death

Hello Dreamwidth

I think I'm actually about ready to come back - it seems I wasn't last time and the internet was still a little Too Much. I've done a combination of avoiding the internet because it's stressful, and some work curating my online experience to protect my mental health and I think I'm starting to recover.

The world is still a dumpster fire, and there have been some things in RL that have been utterly terrible that I'm not ready to talk about. I'm still struggling but I'm medicated, I've done a self-referral to local mental health services, and I have an amazing support network in my closer friends.

I'm starting to notice I'm listening to music again, I picked up a book for the first time in weeks, and I've opened up Dreamwidth again so fingers crossed the light at the end of the tunnel is the exit and not another train hurtling towards me.

Normal service should return shortly but in the meantime - I've just signed up for Threads. I have no idea how to use it, how to find people but if any of you lovely people are using the site, please add me and say hi so I'm not all alone?
https://www.threads.net/@alismaywitch is where you'll find me

It's kind of eerie when one is poking around Dreamwidth how many seemingly abandoned journals there are. I understand that a lot of them might be restricted, posts visible to friends only but it gives quite the ghost town vibe

You find some where people have only made a couple of posts so you assume they were trying blogging out but found it didn't work for them, but they left the journal there, without deleting it.

You also find some where people have used it for years but then appear to have suddenly stopped using it. It makes you wonder what happened to all these random people that you've never even heard of.

(I haven't gone to their profiles to look and see when their post was because that feels a little too stalkery - I don't know why that feels different to just randomly wandering around Dreamwidth to people's journals, but it does!)