Short Circuits and Stumbling Blocks

I hit a stumbling block with the piece I was trying to write about the first year of living with my diagnosis. While for the most part, the experience has been positive, I started pushing back at myself when it felt like, to me, that I was focusing on the positive at the expense of the negative. But writing about the negative caused me to pull up short, as if I were uncertain whether or not I could share the negative on the blog.

I've been kicking this around for five months now, but I haven't given up on it, which tells me that it's something that I want to write. I think that maybe it's bigger than I thought it was, and maybe I need to break it down into some smaller chunks.

It's just frustrating when you finally put a good chunk of effort into something that's been hanging out for so long, only to have it short circuit in your hand.