Only thing is that up until this point I've been a resounding failure as far as creative things are concerned, and I'm hoping that recognizing my condition will help me rely on my strengths and avoid my weaknesses. How do you approach your writing, for example? I personally need to know that all the events follow each other with meticulous logic. Encompassing a novel-length text in this manner seems almost physically impossible (or at the very least always made me miserable in the end), so maybe I should embrace the short-story format...

As far as "precarious", I'm constantly afraid that something bad is going to happen and I won't have anyone to turn to for help. I've been trying to convince myself that this way of thinking is not useful, but life is constantly proving me right... Although in the ways that it's impossible for other people to understand how I might get upset this much...