PrincessInWhite

PrincessInWhite

I just want to sell out my funeral
Feb 21, 2019
640
Does anybody else feel like their "Best case scenario" recovery is a life they don't even want? I will ALWAYS need to continuously and meticulously monitor my emotions and responses, I will always get whiplash from anything remotely good or bad happening in my life (even silly small things), I will always be exhausted from riding an emotional roller coaster even when I am managing my illness well. I will always experience any sort of boredom as painful emptiness, and any sort of stressor as unbearable- there's no winning. I know it is possible to "manage symptoms" but I don't want a life where I just "manage". Some folks may find meaning in that and I applaud them, but I'm getting very tired.

Can anyone relate?
 
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CarefulWithThatAxe

Experienced
Nov 7, 2019
296
I can relate trying to contain my emotions is a nightmare.
 
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BPD Barbie

Visionary
Dec 1, 2019
2,361
I can relate. BPD is horrible. I'm constantly walking on eggshells with myself. Don't text back? OK you hate me, I'll just go and hurt myself. Your text is too short? OK you hate me I'll just go take some pills. The insane reaction to the smallest of things. The ups and downs, the splitting, the impulses. Its not worth it for me. I know how I react is crazy, I'm a rational person by nature, but it's like I'm a backseat passenger in my life and I'm just watching myself destroy myself.
 
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BridgeJumper

BridgeJumper

The Arsonist
Apr 7, 2019
1,194
Schizoaffective (bipolar + schizophrenia) AND bpd here
I feel you
12 years of getting consistently worse. Not even remotely in control. My behaviour is out of control, existence hurts.
On my best day Im just cutting and binge drinking in my room and then put on a fake normie persona when I go to art class.
On my worst days Im sitting on the ground wearing warpaint and screaming about being already dead and decomposing while I throw bottles at the wall.
No hope forme at all. Nil
 
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Worthless_nobody

Enlightened
Feb 14, 2019
1,384
I have both c-ptsd and bpd. I really relate to what you wrote. I wish I had something positive to say to answer your question but for me personally its pretty hopeless. The combination of these 2 disorders has robbed me of a happy life. All the trauma I endured was out of my control yet I can't get past it despite therapy and meds.

All I desire is to stop overthinking, over analysing, stop fearing, the constant emotional rollercoaster, self sabotaging and volatile relationships. It really does feel like all I'm doing is managing my symptoms and for me that's no way to live. I give others encouragement if they still want to keep trying and fighting and some do go one and lead happy lives. But for me I'm done..it's pretty hopeless for me.
 
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Sweet emotion

Enlightened
Sep 14, 2019
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Does anybody else feel like their "Best case scenario" recovery is a life they don't even want? I will ALWAYS need to continuously and meticulously monitor my emotions and responses, I will always get whiplash from anything remotely good or bad happening in my life (even silly small things), I will always be exhausted from riding an emotional roller coaster even when I am managing my illness well. I will always experience any sort of boredom as painful emptiness, and any sort of stressor as unbearable- there's no winning. I know it is possible to "manage symptoms" but I don't want a life where I just "manage". Some folks may find meaning in that and I applaud them, but I'm getting very tired.

Can anyone relate?

I totally understand what you mean. I have Complex regional pain syndrome which is the highest ranking pain condition in medical history. Worse than childbirth since it's non stop. There's one thing that people do to keep the pain down to this method doesn't work for me. They havw to go to a doctor's office who does ketamine infusions and you have to do it for ten days at a time for four hours a day. Just sitting in a room with two other people that you really don't want to talk to. And then about a month later you have to go for what are called boosters to keep the ketamine in your system. This is for the rest of your life. And you gave to make sure you never have an accident or hurt yourself because that pain will never leave you. That's how this disease works. It's a neurological condition. So I think even if those infusions helped me a little I still wouldn't want to live like this where I can't do anything that requires serious movement or strength. I wouldn't want to have to watch every step I take Ike I have to do now to make sure I don't get hurt. I don't want to have to worry about my skin being so painful it hurts to lie I bed and touch the sheets. I don't think people should have to do that much to just live.
 
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hypo666

Member
Jun 3, 2019
57
I had my life all planned out but unfortunately my past caught up with me. I thought I was making a fresh start...... leaving people and old ghosts behind ,hundreds of miles away up in the far north of the UK. I managed to get into a similar situation that I had got in years ago in school which I think is 50 percent to blame for my mental illness. I got into this similar situation and in my damaged mind I had two choices, run back to the very place I had run away from because at that point mum was still there or fight this person. physically fight him. I opted to run, and shortly after I ran I started to hear voices which the doctors wrongly it turned out thought was paranoid schizophrenia.

fast forward twenty years and Iam still seeing psychiatrists, the only thing changed has been my diagnosis, they now think I have a mixed personality disorder. The psychologist talks about complex trauma and tells me she is shocked Iam not in a coffin already or in prison {at least she is honest!}. I don't want to 'recover' either. As I said earlier I had it all planned out ,I don't like this society, I don't like the people in it and I don't like myself.

For christmas I have a 'choice' between being alone in my bungalow or spending xmas in supported accomodation with other people society has thrown in the trash. I suppose it could be worse, I could be on the street..... I just can't stop thinking this was not supposed to happen to me, I can't put right stuff from the past I can't go back in time and protect that little boy ,tell him to start throwing punches and keep punching,tell him if he doesn't stand up for himself, if he doesn't leave that poisionous family home then he will end up mentally ill and thrown in the trash, thinking every day about ending it or taking revenge on other people who are also broken just like him, but they didn't need to involve me in their fucked up shit which is why I want to kill every last one of them.
 
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Jean4

Jean4

Remember. I am ALWAYS right.... until Iā€™m not
Apr 28, 2019
7,557
Schizoaffective (bipolar + schizophrenia) AND bpd here
I feel you
12 years of getting consistently worse. Not even remotely in control. My behaviour is out of control, existence hurts.
On my best day Im just cutting and binge drinking in my room and then put on a fake normie persona when I go to art class.
On my worst days Im sitting on the ground wearing warpaint and screaming about being already dead and decomposing while I throw bottles at the wall.
No hope forme at all. Nil
Relate.
 
BlueWidow

BlueWidow

Visionary
Oct 6, 2019
2,179
I can totally relate to you PrincessInWhite. My husband died 2 years ago and people keep urging me to " start a new life ". No one seems to understand that without my husband there is no "new life" I would want. Someone could offer me $1 million dollars and it wouldn't matter. Nothing will bring my husband back or fix my health problems, so any new life would still be unbearable, even if I had all the money and support in the world. It's too late now. I'm better off dead, and I believe everyone else will also ultimately be better off if I'm dead too.
 
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Jean4

Remember. I am ALWAYS right.... until Iā€™m not
Apr 28, 2019
7,557
I can totally relate to you PrincessInWhite. My husband died 2 years ago and people keep urging me to " start a new life ". No one seems to understand that without my husband there is no "new life" I would want. Someone could offer me $1 million dollars and it wouldn't matter. Nothing will bring my husband back or fix my health problems, so any new life would still be unbearable, even if I had all the money and support in the world. It's too late now. I'm better off dead, and I believe everyone else will also ultimately be better off if I'm dead too.
Awwww Blue. Know we love you here. :)
 
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TheLastGoodbye

Student
Oct 23, 2019
109
Just remember that you are asking people on a suicide forum who want to die and probably haven't had much luck with treatment. I would recommend asking your question on a forum for those issues as well, as I think you would receive a more reliable response. I'm curious to know the response since I have c-ptsd and possibly bpd as well. Hope things get better for you.
 
Alec

Alec

Wizard
Apr 22, 2019
681
YES! I can definitely relate! I can relate to every single word you just said, and I feel the exact same way(well maybe a bit different since we are separate humans but still). And I've been thinking about the same thing, the best case scenario for me is a life I know I won't be happy with and even more will be miserable in. It's not as bad as living in a war zone, but I won't be happy and like you said, the boredom feels too deep and everything is just a lot and really heavy. And mostly my best case scenario just isn't good enough and won't be able to make me feel happy enough to put up with all the bad stuff and pain I feel, and loss of purpose partly because that base case is nothing I ever wanted. The possible good things are just not good enough to put up with all the other stuff, they are just not worth it.
 
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exhausted

Experienced
Oct 22, 2019
253
C-PTSD and BPD as well here. Yeah, it hurts too damn much. It doesn't even make sense, how can things hurt this much and for this long and in such complex ways? Why is BPD even a thing? Ha. God goofed with that creation.
 
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PrincessInWhite

PrincessInWhite

I just want to sell out my funeral
Feb 21, 2019
640
i'm so exhausted and you have all given me strength. thank you <3
Just remember that you are asking people on a suicide forum who want to die and probably haven't had much luck with treatment. I would recommend asking your question on a forum for those issues as well, as I think you would receive a more reliable response. I'm curious to know the response since I have c-ptsd and possibly bpd as well. Hope things get better for you.
very true, friend! definitely something to take into consideration.
 
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Elias

Experienced
Mar 19, 2019
216
You've put words in what I really feel deep down. Even my "best case scenario" is a life I absolutely do not want. Constantly being on the lookout and analysing your own emotions and thoughts, knowing you're going to overreact or overfeel in a situation, having to "manage" just to avoid a total breakdown. This is going to be a life that requires intense amounts of efforts just for it to not be an absolute catastrophe. It gets really exhausting, and I'm tired too.
 
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