/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

My stomach is all kinds of fucked up from having a kid I don't think I'll ever feel confident enough to cosplay anything that shows my stomach even though I really want to cosplay one of the bear forms of Lulu or Ginko from Yuri Kuma Arashi. Maybe some day when I get back into shape I can tighten up my stomach enough and cover the stretch marks but I really don't think it'll look good even then and I may still have loose skin no matter how many sit ups I do.

>>8454131
Anon, I graduated last year with an arts degree and still haven't found a job. Granted, I have been majorly depressed for the last year and am now just getting over it. My depression is just a culmination of a bunch of things that were building up, but I'm getting through it now. My parents are amazing people and have been helping me and letting me live at home. Every now and then my mom and siblings rag on me for being useless and an embarassment to the family, but I worked a very demanding retail job for years and paid for my books and art supplies myself, and do a lot of things for my parents that they've really cut back on the comments. In compensation I fix things and do all of the yardwork.

So here I am, one year out of school, with no work, as all my school friends go on to move into big cities, regularly getting into big named galleries, getting flooded with freelance jobs, etc. And I'm stuck at home battling depression. Something that's helped me was accepting that people do things at a different pace. I was able to figure out in the last year what it is exactly that I want out of my degree, and how I am going to go about doing it. I could care less at this point in time how well off my friends are doing, because my own happiness is at the forefront of my mind. I'm going to redo my entire portfolio, I've began planning new projects. I have a few friends that send me encouraging texts and ask me regularly how I'm doing with whatever project I've mentioned. The one thing that makes me the saddest was that depression robbed me of the thing I loved doing most. I haven't drawn or painted in months. I am slowly starting off drawing a little each day, and I'm currently the happiest I've been in months. I feel more like me than I was a year ago.
Get a part time job to help pay the bills, apply for art jobs on the side. Make art while you do all of this; don't wait around for your big break because unfortunately life doesn't work that way.

>>8395948
Anon who is currently on Accutane right now, reporting in! Accutane is usually suggested by your dermatologist as a last resort, when all other methods of treatment and medication don't work. I would say my acne was moderate, but then again it just smacked me out of no where and gave me a face full of painful purple cysts, and wrecked all of my self confidence to the point where I quit my job and haven't really left my house in months. Having the dermatologist as "what are your thoughts on Accutane" was like a miracle, because during all of my other treatments I told myself "I don't need Accutane, I refuse to go on it." Well joke's sure on me because I jumped on that offer, I was at my wit's end.

I have heard horor stories from my cousin who is a doctor, online, my dermatoligist herself, my pharmacist. However, everybody reacts to the medication differently, and anything more than dry skin and lips and sun sunsetivity is rare. I had myself so worked up before starting it that I couldn't sleep at night and had trouble eating. Then I started it (do not get me started on that second pregnancy test, take the online test, HAVE to meet the 7 day window your first month! bullshit), and a month later my symptoms were:
>dry skin
>dry lips
That's it.

However, my dermatologist is amazing. She had me start off on the lowest dose, 20mg, monitered me to see how I reacted, and then bumped me up to 40mg. I can honestly say that I do not regret going on it. I am currently in my third month (still on 40mg, we are going to see if I should continue at this number or go up to 60mg), and I am happier than I have been in months. I experience the occasional muscle ache (it just feels like I am stiff and need to stretch), or mood swings (I am sometimes more irritable). My skin is currently better than it has been in months, and my mom pretty much cried when she saw how well it was clearing up because she was so happy for me. I do not regret going on it.

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