So, I just finished my acting class final, which was a scene I had to do with one of my classmates. She was more experienced and handled it better, but if you'll excuse some petty whining, I think she got the easier part. Anyway, my brain has this weird way of handling stress, which is that it holds up fine for the duration of the stressful event, then completely says "I'm gonna stop being productive lmao," and sinks into depression. Afterwards. This means I ghost my friends, slump on creative projects, and generally feel like a useless slug for a few days.

I didn't really think it was gonna hit me this hard, but I guess I pushed myself a lot over these past few months. I'll be back eventually, I just gotta shore things up by doing nonintuitive things like shunning social interaction and flaking out on my obligations.

I hope. I mean, it could just mean that clinical depression is crawling back out of irrelevance like some old villain on episode 400 of a shounen anime.