I took the advice that I was given on here yesterday and, today, sat down and got working on it - as it were. Rather surprisingly, I actually made progress. Not much progress, but enough for me to notice. I've done two half an hour-ish long sessions today, one in the morning and one just recently, and in my last one I was sat down describing characteristics ETC when I suddenly had the feeling someone was listening.
No one else was in the house at that point, so it wasn't like anyone was outside my room or something, I genuinely thought someone was listening to me. I kind of stopped mid sentence and just looked around me, looked out the window, checked my phone wasn't actually calling anyone (I have no idea why I did that last one) because I had a feeling, deep down, that someone was listening to me.
I sat back down in my previous position and, before returning to what I had been previously saying, I asked "was that you?" and a few seconds later I kind of got this rush - like a sickly kind of feeling - throughout my whole body. It stuck around for a bit, and once it finished I just returned to what I was saying before hand. I'm curious now whether it was actually progress, or just my body hoping for progress or something along those lines.
I'm going to take it as a sign that maybe this is going better than I had anticipated.