Thanks everybody, very reassuring to hear that you think it is normal and temporary and that it hasn’t shown through much on here. I appreciate it.
@JilltheTooth, thank you kindly.
@mazingerz88 Good suggestion, I’ve actually been doing a lot of art lately. It helps.
@Bellatrix, you are quite right, I am much more aware of the fact that I can’t really judge people because I can’t know what people’s lives are like, what challenges they face, what they’ve been through. I’m much more aware of the various ways in which people are struggling, things I’d never imagined before I went through all this. I think I’m a little overly aware at the moment because it’s like everything I hear goes through a filter in my brain to pick out any hint of disrespect towards the ill or disadvantaged, and I get very indignant about it when I find it. Even just stupid little things – like a recent remark I saw here on Fluther about how it’s disgusting that some people don’t use bidets – make me very irritable. Wow, if normal people’s bathroom habits are so disgusting to you, what on earth do you think of people with digestive diseases? Just little things like that, that I know the author truly had no intention of being an insult.
I also don’t sweat the small stuff quite so much anymore, which is very beneficial to me, having always been a constant worrier. But that attitude has its negative side too, which is that I sometimes get annoyed with people when they complain about things that don’t seem like a “big deal” to me, which I know is not fair to do.