Progress, I think

I haven’t written all that much about Game Fanatic lately. All things considered, I think he’s doing pretty well. But his anxiety levels remain high and this continues to disable him in many areas of his life. We’ve been plodding along with medications and therapy over the past six or seven months. He sees a psychiatrist every four to six weeks, mainly with regard to medication. Until recently, he hardly spoke at these appointments but he’s been able to have a reasonable conversation the last two visits. Due to his inability to speak, I’ve been speaking to the psychologist about him over most of this year. I find it incredibly exhausting and I started to feel like it wasn’t very productive because the only effect seemed to be that my own anxiety levels have increased over the year. Game Fanatic did start back with his own appointments recently and I think there is some progress in communication there.

Socially, he chose recently to rejoin his fortnightly Sunday Dungeons and Dragons group after being away for over a year. They no longer meet at the original location so this involved going to a new place.  Although I know it was overwhelming for him, I think he managed it really well and should improve in the future. He’s not been satisfied with the progress of his weekly D&D group for a while because it moves too slowly. But the Sunday group was ripping along over the three and a half hours they played. It’s also a more mature group and I think this is also beneficial for him.

He’s been on medication for most of this year. There have been two constants throughout this time, one which apparently can take a long time to show obvious effects. The other medication is for attention issues and should have shown effect some time ago. The only thing we’ve worked out, though, is that it decreases  his appetite. I think he finally is having some good feelings about some of the positive changes from that now, even though he’d be unlikely to admit it yet. So we will continue to plod along and hopefully progress will continue even though it may be very slow to occur.