I'm afraid I don't have any artwork for this week, apart from a small drawing I did for thank you cards this year after Christmas. My health is still quite poor. My pain is very bad and my mental health is still in a bit of a state.
The Community Mental Health Team have really helped me manage the hallucinations with good support from my CPN, grounding techniques, distraction and antipsychotic medication. The meds have really helped now they have me on a dose which is effective. But this has left me in a bad depression. The depression reduces my ability to do anything at all. I have been struggling to paint and draw anything since November last year. I put up all of the artwork from before that time and it carried me through until this week when I finally ran out of art! I do have some drawings and paintings in process but I can't seem to get going on them.
On top of all of that my GP has discovered a hormone problem which could be due to the anti-psychotic meds or could be a benign pituitary brain tumour. I had an MRI scan of my brain less than a week after my GP phoned me which was great because we normally have to wait a long while for MRIs. I'm now waiting for the results.
I want to thank you all for bearing with me while all of this is going on, hence the card. I am seeing the psychiatrist next week and I hope he might be able to help me with the depression. It's tricky because I'm already on the highest dose of the antidepressant they have me on so it might mean having to change medication.
Thanks again!
This drawing was done using pencil and ink. Over the top of the final picture I use matt acrylic medium. This took the shine out of the pencil which made it possible to photograph it properly. I am going to use this technique again. The lettering was added in post production using Photoshop 6.0.
I also wish you all blessings for Imbolc from yesterday...
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