I think it's time for me to be a bit more honest with you all. My mental health's going down the pan, and I think it has been since February of this year.
I just didn't properly realise until a week or two back. I don't wish to state the root cause in public at this stage, but am happy to do so via PM if anyone's interested to know. I should've done this a long time ago for other reasons (you all know what I'm on about here), but I've got an appointment booked with my GP for a couple of weeks' time, where I'm hopeful we'll be able to start getting something sorted so I can get my mental health back on track.
Part of me wonders if I just subconsciously wanted to power on through and hope it'd get better of its own accord, or by my usual tactic of talking it out to friends (apologies in particular to
@Ted ). As valuable as things like that are to me, I'm at the point where I've had to admit that for the first time in my life, I need professional help. I don't know how long it'll take until I'm better again, which is unsettling, but I know this is something I can't put a timeframe on.