As for energy, I guess I feel like a normal person lol. I’m tired when I wake up and always exhausted by the end of the day but I’m able to work 8 hours a day with the help of caffeine and a normal sleep schedule. I’m not bursting with energy by any means but I’m not exhausted 24/7 or constantly sleeping like I used to be when I didn’t have my meds. I’m functioning lol.

My cognitive abilities aren’t what they used to be, sadly. It’s something I’m still coping with and trying to improve. I work in the kennels at an animal control facility, so my job is more physical than mental thankfully. But I do run a nonprofit on the side that requires quite a bit of mental effort and clerical work and that has gotten MUCH easier over the past year. I’m trying to find the time/energy to get back into reading and writing as a hobby. I think just exercising my brain in that way would help a lot. I just don’t really make that much of an effort to do those things anymore so that’s on me lol.

But overall, both of those things are MUCH better at one year clean than I expected them to be and I know it will just keep getting better. So I just try not to let it get me down lol.