It's always a troubling to approach the issue of how much of an issue is brain chemistry, and thus how much of it can be controlled, but if the soul-stopping negative thought patterns are a new Defcon 1 guest, then it seems like there should be some way to beat them.

At the moment, my big motivator is a reader/fellow writer who is guaranteed to be interested, excited, and up for chat – do you have anyone like that?