I woke up in the middle of the night with emotional overwhelm. It kinda started before I fell asleep but I thought I could sleep it off. Three hours later of shaking, headaches, intrusive thoughts, and irrational fears I finally slept again, pretending once again to be comforted, while slowing down my breathing, and mostly okay.
This was one of the harder nights, but I'm here. I'm trying my best. I feel embarrassed saying my way of calming down is to pretend a fictional female character (who, ironically, I don't actually have any attachment or liking to outside of this situation) is comforting me. I know that whatever works, works. But, I feel really awkward about it. I'm a grown woman whose so broken down to the point I need to go to the depths of my own imagination just to not seriously consider CTB outside fantasizing my death over and over as stress relief. God I'm pathetic.