That's Not Me
A cork on the ocean floating over the raging sea
- Sep 14, 2022
- 108
Since I'm back to writing a lot around here, I think it's best to create a thread to leave all vents in the same place, as I did in the recovery session. I don't write this for anyone to read, so feel free to go back to doing what you were doing before clicking here. I write these things to organize my thoughts and to capture moments. I have discovered many things about myself while writing about myself here.
It is already Wednesday and I still have no idea how this week will end. My head is spinning and my heart is aching. Now I am discovering the same things that I discovered last year, and I am feeling almost the same things, but the pain is different. I feel the same pressure in my chest as last year, but now there is a very strange feeling in my heart. It is almost like I am hungry in my heart. I remember that I once read that we feel hungry because we are feeling our stomachs being digested by the acids. Maybe my blood is too toxic and it's corroding my heart. It is a strange feeling. Every day I wake up with new directions and go to sleep wondering if I am doing the right thing. The part of me that wanted to die was always the emotional part, and the part of me that wanted to live was the rational part, but since Sunday it is just the opposite. The rational part of me started to prepare and found out yesterday that it is going to be harder than last year, and the emotional part doesn't seem to have noticed that the game is over and it can finally rest.
Yesterday I had the bad idea of not taking sleeping pills, because I thought I was sleepy enough, but I stayed from 08:00 PM until 01:30 AM, and then from 04:30 AM until 06:00 AM, thinking about what I really want. I thought a lot about what I am going to tell my psychologist tomorrow. If I lie to her it will be the first real step towards ctb. I don't get emotional thinking about these things anymore, but I am scared. There is some part of me that wants to tell me something, and I'm afraid that I can't hear it. I'm not sure yet, and I'm not going to do anything until I'm completely sure of what I want. It's all so monumentally complex. I have to think of dozens of variables at the same time and put everything into the balance. Now I've gone back to trying to choose my words better to talk to everyone, but I haven't succeeded very well. I think I still need some time to get my ego choked up enough to remember that my suffering will end but others' won't and that I have to be very careful what I say. I think that to solve this I'm going to have to spend a few weeks completely alone. There are some times of the day that I don't want to die, and I think that I need to go through the same experiences that I went through last year to get back to being completely in the same state of mind. Only then will I be able to be sure of what I want to be sure of. I also need, at the same time as I need to stifle my ego, to care less about people. Last year I thought the only way I could build up the courage to ctb was to stop taking meds to become more selfish and impulsive. It didn't work the way I wanted it to, but ultimately it worked. This year I am already taking almost no meds, so the only thing I can do to stay like last year is to wait for the worms to eat the part of my brain that is responsible for me being able to care. Cursed moment when I went to get out of the box that had protected me for so long. I only had my parents and a handful of family members to care about.
Yesterday I talked to my grandmother and it made me feel so bad. I wanted so much to apologize to her. I promised her that I would learn a specific song for her, that she would still be alive when I got taller than her, when I graduated, when I learned to drive, when I got married... There are so many promises that I won't be able to keep. She always tells me to the other grandchildren that she loves all three of them the same, but he always tells me whispering that she likes me best and that I am the only person she can open up to. I was not a good grandson last year and saw her only a few times. If things really go the way the rational part of me wants them to, I will have to be a bad grandson once again. This is an example of the kind of thing I have to think about: if I go to her house every weekend, those will be good last moments with her, but she will think more that she could have done something and will blame herself more, so I can't do it. It would be so much easier if instead of me taking the bus, some random bus would run me over.
I helped my mother last week to write a good resume. She was impressed with my ability to synthesize. If only she knew that I only started writing okay because I discovered this site. She went on an interview today and I helped her pick out her outfit. She is the most amazing person I know, and I feel very proud of myself for never having spoken of what I go through.
If you have read this far, you are surely in an even more miserable stage than I am, so I truly hope you will be okay. Remember that no matter how great an anguish or loss is, it will eventually pass. Love and mercy to all.
It is already Wednesday and I still have no idea how this week will end. My head is spinning and my heart is aching. Now I am discovering the same things that I discovered last year, and I am feeling almost the same things, but the pain is different. I feel the same pressure in my chest as last year, but now there is a very strange feeling in my heart. It is almost like I am hungry in my heart. I remember that I once read that we feel hungry because we are feeling our stomachs being digested by the acids. Maybe my blood is too toxic and it's corroding my heart. It is a strange feeling. Every day I wake up with new directions and go to sleep wondering if I am doing the right thing. The part of me that wanted to die was always the emotional part, and the part of me that wanted to live was the rational part, but since Sunday it is just the opposite. The rational part of me started to prepare and found out yesterday that it is going to be harder than last year, and the emotional part doesn't seem to have noticed that the game is over and it can finally rest.
Yesterday I had the bad idea of not taking sleeping pills, because I thought I was sleepy enough, but I stayed from 08:00 PM until 01:30 AM, and then from 04:30 AM until 06:00 AM, thinking about what I really want. I thought a lot about what I am going to tell my psychologist tomorrow. If I lie to her it will be the first real step towards ctb. I don't get emotional thinking about these things anymore, but I am scared. There is some part of me that wants to tell me something, and I'm afraid that I can't hear it. I'm not sure yet, and I'm not going to do anything until I'm completely sure of what I want. It's all so monumentally complex. I have to think of dozens of variables at the same time and put everything into the balance. Now I've gone back to trying to choose my words better to talk to everyone, but I haven't succeeded very well. I think I still need some time to get my ego choked up enough to remember that my suffering will end but others' won't and that I have to be very careful what I say. I think that to solve this I'm going to have to spend a few weeks completely alone. There are some times of the day that I don't want to die, and I think that I need to go through the same experiences that I went through last year to get back to being completely in the same state of mind. Only then will I be able to be sure of what I want to be sure of. I also need, at the same time as I need to stifle my ego, to care less about people. Last year I thought the only way I could build up the courage to ctb was to stop taking meds to become more selfish and impulsive. It didn't work the way I wanted it to, but ultimately it worked. This year I am already taking almost no meds, so the only thing I can do to stay like last year is to wait for the worms to eat the part of my brain that is responsible for me being able to care. Cursed moment when I went to get out of the box that had protected me for so long. I only had my parents and a handful of family members to care about.
Yesterday I talked to my grandmother and it made me feel so bad. I wanted so much to apologize to her. I promised her that I would learn a specific song for her, that she would still be alive when I got taller than her, when I graduated, when I learned to drive, when I got married... There are so many promises that I won't be able to keep. She always tells me to the other grandchildren that she loves all three of them the same, but he always tells me whispering that she likes me best and that I am the only person she can open up to. I was not a good grandson last year and saw her only a few times. If things really go the way the rational part of me wants them to, I will have to be a bad grandson once again. This is an example of the kind of thing I have to think about: if I go to her house every weekend, those will be good last moments with her, but she will think more that she could have done something and will blame herself more, so I can't do it. It would be so much easier if instead of me taking the bus, some random bus would run me over.
I helped my mother last week to write a good resume. She was impressed with my ability to synthesize. If only she knew that I only started writing okay because I discovered this site. She went on an interview today and I helped her pick out her outfit. She is the most amazing person I know, and I feel very proud of myself for never having spoken of what I go through.
If you have read this far, you are surely in an even more miserable stage than I am, so I truly hope you will be okay. Remember that no matter how great an anguish or loss is, it will eventually pass. Love and mercy to all.