Hi guys. I know I'm seldom on. I just wanted to write a somewhat positive message. I'm usually only on here when in a crisis.

I work 1-1.5 days a week and go to school twice a week. I'm caught up on my classes right now, but they're not over until the first week of June. Work is tedious, but at least I don't have as much anxiety about it as I used to.

Basically I'm hoping that this summer I'll be able to start writing again. I've only written one short story and a few poems in 16 months. I used to be very prolific. I finished my first novel in May '08 during a hypomanic episode. I wish I could start a second novel, but writing anything creative is intimidating these days. About all I can do is schoolwork or watch recorded programs at night. Makes me feel like a drone.

In order to make things better, I started to come off of all my meds a couple of weeks ago. They make me sluggish mentally. I need my edge back. I stopped drinking in October of '09, but my brain still feels like it's in a fog. So I blame the meds. I was on 6 to start with. Now I'm on 5. I'll be on 3 as of Wednesday and one of those is not a psych med.

Just looking for support in this time of transition, but I'm really doing better than I have in about a year. Things are looking up. Thank you all for being there for me ever since I came on here last May.