My absence has been caused by my deteriorating mental health, the past months have been some of the worst for my mental health. I’ve always struggled with depression and mental illness in general, even when I was dropping my warrior cats designs art consistently I was having a rough time at home. Unfortunately, those rough times escalated and I found I was emotionally unstable and unable to motivate myself to do draw.
Initially I wanted to power through this feeling. So I started giving myself work on this blog (ask Icestrike, warrior cats designs) hoping that the fear of letting my followers down would motivate me to draw even when I had no desire to do anything for myself anymore. Instead, I had just caused more stress for myself upon my graduation that was happening at the time and I shut everybody out of my life.
(I graduated btw — I was also placed in 2 group homes since my foster family moved away.)
Up until recently, I was miserable and neglected myself. I didn’t feed or clean myself and left my new group home unit a mess. I’m not sure what has changed recently that has me feeling less awful, and I don’t want to make any concrete promises, but I’m thinking of coming back and drawing battle cats again soon.
I apologize for my absence, I truly do appreciate and admire my followers and anyone who finds my art or ideas fun or enjoyable. I didn’t think I’d ever reach as many people as I did with my cat drawings. The Warrior Cats community has been part of my life for so long and I’m happy to come back to it. Thank you all. I hope you stick around to see me post silly cat art.