Current Status In Short (Patreon)

Hi dear patrons,

I was going to make a proper announcement post about my new shop which opened just recently on Red Bubble. I didn't find the time to get into details because of some stressful turn of events, so for now I just drop that link here. Please check it out if you have some time to spare. 

Thaumana's Shop | Redbubble

The actual reason why I made this post may sound a bit sudden and pretty unexpecting but I just want to make it t least clear, so you are not wondering why it was so silent around the last days.

Through a chain of coincidences I made contact with a suicidal person on Twitter who is part of a game community I'm in. So we barely know each other. First thing I did was making a report to twitter through their crisis support contact formular. There are no real signs that they did countermeasures or rather I didn't get a notification by them until this day.

In the meantime I managed to made contact with that mentioned person and bought a lot of time, which I consider a wonder since they set a clear deadline for themselves which I was able to postpone after a very long talk. This conversation was more like a negotiation and went over days. Eventually I could convince them to make contact with a professional hotline, but reaching this point really took a toll on me and my mental state.

I still don't know how this situation will turn out since this said service arranged another date for a call with that person today which they decided to be their termination. I hope for the best (also for my own mental sake) and just want to let you know what was going on over the last days to make clear that I'm not absent. Hopefully I can return to my old work groove since these last days also impacted my creative output in a pretty bad way and I wasn't able to produce much after all the intensive persuasion. In any case, I learned a lot about this mentality and realized how tough it can be if someone just tries to find a suitable service for mental health care under certain conditions (like living in the US). It's an absolute tribulation and I experienced it first hand just by trying to get in contact with all possible health care and crisis organizations myself to get help for this person. I even report to the local police. It's crazy how helpless one can feel after most of those options didn't show demanded results. Can't imagine how an affected person must feel in such a situation.

That's all for now. There are many plans for November and I just hope I can stick to my initial schedules.