I remember we arrived at almost the same time, and I immediately was attracted to that dandy name of yours. I think that through all the hardships you have written about there is always still an undercurrent of humour which is just in my experience a good sign. People I have known who fell into a hole, be it drugs, mental illness, divorce - whatever - lost the humour when they were at the rock bottom and sadly that is a factor that adds even more to isolating them.
I am glad you are still here. Steemit has been fascinating, but also fucking annoying at times and the moral decline it has gone through these last two years with the bidbotbastards has been much worse than the decline of the prize of Steem. It really makes me happy that some of my upvotes must have gotten into that boiler :) If you haven't already you should try to downvote some trickster bastard - at least I must admit that I have enjoyed the whole vigilante business lately.
I'll resteem this and hope it gets around!
RE: Marking 3 years on steemit.