Happy New Year!

Hello everyone. I know this is long overdue, but, well, yeah. I'm sure a glance at my last posts will fill you in on everything.

So, it's officially 2017! I know that I am certainly happy to have rid myself of 2016, considering that the last four months of that year were undeniably the worst in my entire life. I've been battling severe health anxiety, stress, as well as multiple health problems. For example, when I was in hospital for three days with atrial tachycardia, the doctors couldn't explain why it had even happened. It was just a 'sometimes they don't have a cause' deal, something which freaked me out because my anxiety couldn't handle not knowing anything.

Luckily, I'm getting help and I'm starting to get better. I'm not constantly afraid anymore and I can ignore headaches and coughs where before I hadn't been able to. Of course, my anxiety likes to make me think I haven't progressed, recalling the last time I had an anxious thought and insisting that I can't possibly be any better. But I know I'm getting better. I know I'm getting stronger and braver every day when it comes to battling this anxiety. Maybe I'm just saying this because I've had a good week and I haven't been very anxious and so I'm feeling optimistic. I don't know. We'll just have to find out.

As for 2017, I'm going to make this the best year I can! I'm going to try and get more active on my blog, though I'll be studying for my GCSEs, which start in May, and so I might not be as active as I want to be.  But I'll be posting more than once a month like I have been doing lately.

I've got some things lined up,  and hopefully this time I'll be able to post everything I take on (Sorry, BookFish Books!) so that you can get some new content that isn't me rambling on about anxiety.

I would also say, having learned how alone anxiety can make you feel, I'd like to do a post series focused on mental health to help those like me, to help those who are struggling. Mental health was never a big thing in my life until recently, when I learned just how big a thing it can be.  It hit me like a brick wall. And now I see why it's such a looming thing in people's lives, and I want to help those people if I can.

Anyway,  to cut a long story short, 2016 was terrible, but I'm optimistic about 2017. So everyone, go and conquer your 2017!