Cindy's Cosmic Creations

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Depression is a nasty animal! In January 2022 (my birthday no less) I got COVID and my memory has been affected but I think it also made my Depression worse. By end of April 2022, I was not able to keep up with my work load and was missing a lot of work due to both of these things, so I ended up taking a leave of absence and started the process to get on disability. Dealing with Hartford Long Term Disability was a nightmare but I found an awesome mental health counselor willing to help me in this path. I started seeing her weekly but eventually had to switch because she was cutting back did to family issues. Then I saw someone else in her practice through telehealth but didn't really connect with her but she was leaving the practice so had to switch again. Partly why we didn't connect is because she kept explaining basic mental health even though I told her multiple times I have a masters degree in mental health counseling. I just needed support with this new phase I'm my life and she just thought I needed to get up and walk to the mailbox everyday. Then I got my new counselor and she's so awesome! My Depression started getting worse and many days did to pain and Depression I could barely function to get out of bed. Then some things were going on in my life bringing me down even more and hurt my shoulder so needed rotator cuff surgery and physical therapy and I found myself going down this dark hole that I could not get out of. I reached out to some close friends and my counselor who thought it may be time to start looking at medication for it. I had been taking duloxetine generic for Cymbalta for pain and anxiety but only helped my anxiety a little but that wasn't the main issue. So took me a while to find a psych dr and she started me on zoloft but still wasn't feeling any better. I kept saying I feel like I'm stuck in a pit with mud and fog keeping me in the dark and stuck. I started feeling like my life was never going to get better and was just going through the motions but not really feeling anything. I had never realized I've had depression all my life but was usually able to get myself out of it or at least so I could function. But during this time my depression was so extreme I just couldn't function. Days would go by where I was hardly doing anything and I was cut off from everyone. (My doing) then my psychiatrist tried fluoxetine the generic for Prozac. At first I didn't feel any different and kept wondering if anything was going to help. I knew it would take 3-6 weeks to see a difference but didn't see any changes. Even last week I felt this way. This at the start of this week I started feeling better and when I met with my counselor she said it sounds like the Prozac kicked in as she had a similar experience. Now I'm still in the same pain and I still have trouble moving, walking etc but that dark cloud has lifted and I feel happiness again. It makes me cry because it's been so long since I felt this way. Kent has been my rock though all of this and helped me physically and financially until I get my award letter for my social security since I was finally approved. Now even though I'm so dealing with pain and mobility issues plus everything else life deals you, I feel like there is hope and I'm able to do the tasks to help me move forward in life. I'm motivated to set up my Etsy page to start selling my art as art has been part of my therapy as well. I'm able to do one thing at a time to get my life back on track. Plus looking forward to some other possibilities in the future. I still have more health issues to deal with but I'm able to take it one small step at a time to start moving in the right direction.
Thank you to all of you that read this whole thing and if you don't t that's OK too but I wanted to share because many of my ADS friends do not know the details of why i disappeared from work with no one knowing. Plus if this can help one person by sharing this then it is all good. I love you and appreciate every one of my friends on Facebook and beyond and look forward to a brighter future.

Scammers are trying to send money through venmo or cash app but when you get the email it's says to pay $200 more to become a business account. Then they ask if I'm trustworthy so they will send the extra but it allows them access to your account somehow to get more money. Always check email senders and if it is an actual email from the company. This one was from [email protected] not a legit email.

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Today I had someone message me on Facebook to buy one of my paintings. It was a scam. They sent me emails confirming the money was sent but didn't show up on my PayPal account. They claimed I needed to adjust my account and added another amount of $160 and then $205 in order to activate it to get it out of pending status. The money was pending supposedly. They wanted me to refund the extra money back to them without the money showing up anywhere in PayPal. Then they sent a voice message, it was supposed to me a woman I was selling to but the voice was male. I blocked them and sent the emails to PayPal to investigate.

These are my latest painting I've done just need to resin them. Trying to perfect my bloom.

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My latest finished piece.

Here is a vase I just did as a two for one project and did a tray to catch the drips and make the tray. I'll show ebay once cured.

Hello my name is Cindy Barrett and I've been creating art using resin and acrylic paint for about 6 months. I love watching the paint flow across the page or how the colors come out when using resin. I am setting up my page and eventually will have a website. I will post my art and hopefully you enjoy it as much as I do making it.

This resin piece is a dirty pour of a hand that would make a good holder for various items in your home like makeup brushes.

Here is a cute octopus out of resin.

Here is a resin container that would be great in the bathroom or someplace in your home.

If interested email me at [email protected]