It just feels impossible to keep going

[frozen rampart]

I completely understand. What do you like to do? Do you have any outdoor activities? It doesn't have to be art related. It can be anything! Like I stick my hands in my garden's dirt and I feel better or go outside and just sit outside.

Honestly it looks like you got your answer, but hey, being an artist doesn't always mean you have to give up forever. You can just take 1-4 year break from it and try to presuade something else and then later in those years, you decide you want to go back, you go back. Life is silly sometimes - you don't have to be weighed down by anything.

I know art is important to you, but it is always with you even if you are not doing it currently. You are always an artist and while it may be impossible to keep going right now.

You are being open and talking about it right now and that's a start! Start doing things small, like making a meal for yourself every day at the same time. Take care of yourself is what you should be doing. Self caring is what you need.

And if it feels impossible to keep doing anything, please reach out to a professional who knows how to handle those feelings.

[trail wolf]

It’s all I really know. I used to garden a lot but I had a period of time when I could not do it and it took me out of it. I used to brew mead, garden and I had even started 3D printing at one point

Art is all I know and I feel like I don’t have the skills for anything else. I’ve had a lot of bad experiences in retail and fast food so I’m reluctant to look for work in any of those fields.

Pair that with bad depression and anxiety and it’s almost completely taken me out of everything I once loved doing.

There’s lots in art that I would love to do and I get excited seeing others works in those fields, but I constantly feel like I’m not good enough or I get overwhelmed trying to learn it all and just burn out

I don’t know what else I would do