• LLMs make decent therapists. Try CharacterAI or even just assign a therapist persona to ChatGPT (makes it more accurate - e.g. “You are an experienced psychologist with experience in the following therapies…”). This is both solo and affordable.
• Look into books you can read about managing your mental health.
• There are loads of apps out there that can help you with your depression, e.g. supplement your flagging executive function, remind you to practice rejection of useless self-castigation, help you check in with how you’re feeling, etc.
• Go outside at least once a day.
• Exercise at least once a day for half an hour.
• Set small and manageable goals, and make sure you speak to yourself positively when you achieve the goal, no matter how small.

These are all admittedly easier said than done when you’re depressed, but they are better than nothing, especially if you weren’t doing anything in these areas earlier.

I used to be good at this, but I have lost my self-confidence and ability to think on my feet.

Couple of things from ep 1-3 (still have to watch the last few)

• uh Crowley still has the Celestial Crank? The one that started the Big Bang? I thought it was part of the Bentley that Crowley sentimentally hung onto when it exploded, I thought it was fucking cool that that’s the weapon he has when he and Aziraphale speak to Adam, but it’s so so much older than that. No wonder he’s flabbergasted when Aziraphale admits he just gave away the flaming sword that God gave him… dude fell from Heaven and he still couldn’t ditch the crank.
• Loving the theme covers in the credits, and they’re all different between episodes!! I wanna see a behind-the-scenes vid for the choral one.
• Flashbacks are great. Comparing Gabriel’s attitude to Job’s situation (“why not simply let Hell do its thing”) and the present-day situation where Aziraphale is trying to justify why he can’t just dump an amnesiac Gabriel in Dartmoor and let Heaven and Hell do their thing. Bloody great. As someone who grew up Catholic, it’s interesting seeing it deconstructed and analysed
• So who the fuck was Crowley before he sauntered vaguely downwards?? He literally created the universe, he seems more powerful than Aziraphale (Aziraphale asks him to stop time, why can’t Aziraphale do that himself? Maybe Crowley can stop time because he helped start it…) Crowley never introduces himself before the Beginning… I hope these are all plot points explored down the track.
• I bet Elspeth’s descendants are out there somewhere. And I hope she ended up buying a farm.
• I’m worried that Crowley got so thoroughly reamed for his antics in Scotland, to the point where he went on a century-long quest for holy water as a backup - not just as a last-ditch defence but as a cyanide pill. Even worse because he got that punishment trying to save someone from suicide. It might have actually convinced him to go for a quick death instead of Hell’s special treatment.
• The Resurrectionists seem important for future plot points. Interesting two-faced sign, and the branded matchbox from the first episode. The address was also very devilish. Hold on, there was a quote from Job on the side, wasn’t there?
• Good Omens book in the shop. Very cool.
• My favourite type of kind of fanfiction I write are those that could ride in the main vehicle’s sidecar. They expand on throwaway points that the story probably won’t come back to. Did Jim sit down and read Good Omens? What adventures did Jane Austen have with Crowley? Might see if i can write one of these…

Just over 9 years contributing and modding a few small places, now i’m basically a lurker. Screw Reddit.

Me too, for PulitzerComments and queerjaw.