Hello all,

I am sorry I've been gone so long. You deserve an explanation.
My last journal was meant to be a hopeful message for everyone, but in a way I was secretly hoping it would serve as a "goodbye" of sorts, if you get what I mean. However, my "goodbye" never came and I'm still kicking. It has been a very hard time, for a long time. I shut off the world and most social media contact for about a year, which was the wrong way to deal with things.
I should never have just left everyone hanging, and there is no excuse for that! I don't ask for forgiveness or pity, but you are owed an explanation and some kind of closure.
I am doing better now, at least better enough to update this and log back in.
To keep my mental health up, I am no longer doing commissions or trades. I have deleted old art I don't like anymore, and have moved older commissions and trades to my scraps so they are still visible, just not prominent. I don't know if I will return here or not.
I will check my messages for the next day or two, but after that I might not respond.
However, I ask if anyone who sees this is struggling with mental health issues, please please hang on and keep going. Help is out there, although it might be hard to find.