A Change in Place

My sister recently moved out and now I'm living on my own1 for the first time in like 4 years. Before I moved back to this house, my dad's house, I had my own apartment for a couple years. It was through a support program that had been helping me develop life skills and was seeing me through mental health recovery. I would say that I did okay living on my own. I had developed my own chore routines, budgeting, groceries and meal planning. I had a lot of that figured out, until the last couple months. I ended up very depressed by the end of those 2 years. I was lonely, and the anxiety made it hard to leave. By the end of those 2 years I had to move back here, to my dad's. I sometimes wonder if I didn't have that option, would I have been able to make it work? Would I have been able to overcome the depression and continue living there? Maybe, probably. I don't think I would have become who I am today if I had stayed there. Moving back here gave me a chance to breathe, to figure out what…