Holy jiminy shit, guys. Was I gone for that long? I hope y'all didn't think I had left for a second time. There's a lot of explaining that I should do, but I won't, because a lot has happened to me in the past month and I don't want to get into it here.

Basically, my depression is getting worse (I was officially diagnosed a week or so ago) and it's causing me to let things slip through my fingers: friendships, school responsibilities, personal care, and my social media presence like here. There was never a day where I didn't think to myself, "I need to catch up at the Pit Stop," but every day I didn't do it, and days turned to weeks, and weeks into a month. I apologize for that, and for my vagueness as to what actually happened to me in the past month. Let's just say that I suffered consequences for being so miserably depressed for no good reason.

I don't know how many of you know what depression feels like, but for my part, here's the deal; I have all the support I could ever ask from friends, family, and authority figures in my life, and yet no matter what they say or do, I always end the day feeling sad, lonely, angry, frustrated, hopeless, or any combination of those things. My friends and family and school authorities are all concerned for me and they go miles out of their way to help me, but it never seems to get through my skull, and so every day for the past I don't even remember has been a muggy, painful slog. I sometimes cry a lot for no reason.

So that's why I haven't been here much, sorry about that.