Sorry, I got distracted too. Anyways.
I've been off the blog for a little while. Okay, months.
I've been a bit overwhelmed with life this fall, primarily with school.
As I've blogged about previously, I have a VERY full teaching load and with our new schedule, the school day doesn't give my mind much of a chance to "breathe".
By the end of the day, my brain is exhausted and I haven't much been in the mood to blog. In mid-November we had parent/teacher conferences. I had meetings with 95 parents over the course of 4 days (in addition to my normal teaching duties).
Mentally, I hit the wall. Conferences are like being on stage for four hours a night, you have to be "ON!" for the parents and when they are over each night, my brain would just seem to stop. By Thursday, I think the appropriate word was "numb".
I had noticed that I was a bit more emotional this fall than I had been in the past - reading an article about emotional Pixar moments was making me bawl - so I knew I needed to talk with my doctor.
My doctor and I did talk and he diagnosed moderate depression. As we were talking about the symptoms, I was thinking, "OMG I've been depressed for 15 years!"
So for the last couple of weeks I have been on medication. It's a low dose and it'll take about 4-6 weeks to fully build up in my system, but I can already feel it working. I'm less anxious at work and I'm better able to handle pressure situations. I've also noticed that I've dropped a few pounds (probably a side effect of not having much of an appetite).
And as a few of you have maybe noticed, my blues affected my blogging. There just wasn't a "drive" to do it, but over the past few days I've rediscovered my spark and will be working to post on a more regular basis.
Thanks to everyone for hanging in there with me. To those of you who checked in to see how I was doing, I really do appreciate it.
I missed you Awesome Nerds,
Robert
