is it bad?

[Dreamscapes Collectives]

(08-02-2012, 12:21 PM)MakersDozn Wrote: Nope, not bad, not lazy, not worthless. Not any of those negative things. Please try to stop "should-ing" on yourselves.

You guys have been through a tremendous amount of....stuff. The challenges that you face are understandable when you consider this. We wish we could say or do something that would help things get easier for you, but all we can do is listen and try to be supportive.

You also have a tremendous talent for graphics and design. And while we haven't read your fiction, we'd bet that you're great at that too. Just because you don't get paid for this work or don't do it on as regular a basis as you might like doesn't mean it's not of great value.

Anyway, we're here, and we're sitting with you.

MDs

hey MDs. thanks. sometimes we can remember we're not worthless. Hell we've got a son going to Caltech this year, a daughter who wants to be a police detective and is already doing things that would help her with that and my youngest is an astounding musician. Since I was a stay-at home mom for most of the years of their life, I must have had some bearing on that right? not their intelligence, but that they are well-adjusted (for teens) and know that they are people in their own right.

but they're getting older now and don't need me like they used to. I guess it's just easy when we're depressed to start thinking the worst of ourselves. I mean it's not like we EVER worked like normal. we worked between 17 and 20. and a couple months in 1999. Other than that we have no work history. Us and our partner go round and round this issue every couple of months. Their on disability too, and have far more debilitating physical conditions than we do. Frankly, neither of us are in the physical OR psychological state to hold a job and it just...it maddens me because this is NOT my FAULT. It's having to pay the piper for all the damn abuse we suffered from. I wish there was a way to get monetary compensation for THAT.

but thank you for responding. the graphics team needs the encouragement because we're going through a massive artistic block.

realms people