Annie’s been avoiding the dueling circuit for a while. Her battle with depression has been uphill and difficult at the best of times, and more than once she’s fallen back on bad habits.
In the last year and a half she’s jumped from therapist to therapist, failing to find one that clicks with her just right until the last two months. In that time, and with a new alteration to her medication, she’s finally started to show improvement.
She’s started going out more, she’s started reaching out to old friends and engaging in old hobbies. She’s managed to get a part-time job to take up some of her excessive free time. She’s starting to eat... better, she’s starting to lessen her addiction to some of those bad habits, replacing them with better, more productive or healing ones.
The thought of dueling still causes her extreme anxiety and distress and she cannot bring herself to touch her duel disk or deck, and keeps them locked away in a box in her closet, but slowly she is starting to improve.
She still has bad days, she still has insomnia she can’t seem to get over(something she and her therapist are trying multiple things to solve), and she still has next to no appetite that she’s struggling through but she is getting better and she is proud of that.
