Transitional Malaise

Bottled up from creating

My transition and other issues bottled me up and kept me from creating (Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash).

Gender transition is a long and emotionally taxing process with many ups and downs. I had a good period of life and writing, but then it derailed into a funk where I felt lousy and isolated. Malaise is a better way to describe the funk. Malaise is a vague sense of mental or moral ill-being, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. During this period of malaise, I was not reading…