It's been eight years since I've been on DeviantArt. I'm trying it again. This will mean purging some of my old catalogue--as the story goes, I find most of my older photos unacceptable. I'm working on abstract, street, and landscape photography, along with polymer clay sculpting. It looks like one of the last things I posted was an essay I wrote for my community college class. Since then I moved onto four year school, then a career as a middle school teacher. Now I'm finishing my Master's. I stopped posting because I stopped creating. I had a mental and physical breakdown. I was diagnosed with PTSD, DID, GAD, and MDD, along with fibromyalgia, chronic migraines, and hypermobile joint disorder. My PTSD pulled me away from water, and my pain disorders slowly took away my ability to go Urban Exploring, until I had a nasty panic attack in the front yard of an abandoned house and gave up photography altogether. Two months ago I got a new camera kit. My old one had been dropped in