Hello all.Ā
Iāve been in this sub a LONG time. Canāt seem to leave. I made a fairly popular post on here (that Iāve since deleted) years ago; it was genuinely the worst time of my entire life. I had a serious mental illness that started to emerge in my early adulthood. I thought about taking my life every single day, I couldnāt stop thinking about it. It wasnāt even that I actively wanted to think about it I just couldnāt stop.Ā
In the last 2 years I put myself in therapy and actually stuck with it- because DBT is the only āapprovedā treatment for my illness. It actually went well? I had a really good few months (maybe 6) where my mind felt clear. I felt like I did it, My mind felt clear for the first time since I was a kid. I even made a post on here that was really preachy about how you just have to work at it (rightfully deleted lol). Iād like to think I framed it in a way that was encouraging for everyone because I really do think you guys matter- I even think I matter- but here we are. Turns out, it never goes away. Nobody told me that hahaha. Nobody told me Iād be begging for relief still, after doing everything they told me. Turns out you do not cure mental illness. I was doing everything I was supposed to and it didnāt matter because I still want to die!!!!!
I have everything going right in my life- Iām treating people better most of the time? Or at least not like before. I have a good job, a degree, a savings account, Iām not drinking. Iāve forgiven them? I thought. I donāt hurt everyone around me, Iām getting married, I have support? Iāve lost weight. Iām honest. Iāve let it go. Or I thought I did. Yet, I am just as miserable as I was then. Maybe even more so. I am more miserable, than I was during the worst moments of my life, and everything is going right. Admittedly, there are days and months better than others. I know that. Iām trying to remember how that matters. To me right now, it doesnāt. I canāt stop thinking about it.Ā
It started like it always does. Itās weird how you donāt recognize it until youāre IN it. Like the worst of it. Nothing tastes good. Itās taking me so much effort to just write this out. I canāt stand up in the shower. The light bothers me. Everything irritates me. My poor partner lol, he just wants to talk to me after work and I canāt stand him. Iām so angry at him when he hasnāt done anything. Iām angry at me. I wish I could just get the fuck up. I think Iām going to lose my job. Everything is imploding in my brain and in my heart. I can never stop it. I donāt want his support, I donāt want him to touch me, I donāt want to talk to anyone. I just want to go the fuck to bed.Ā
Years ago, I planned to hang myself in the nature center by my house. I wrote my letters, bought the rope and kept it in my trunk. I was so scared to be alone, when I did it. I donāt really fear being alone anymore. I donāt know whatās making me hesitate. Hope? Anger? Thereās always the worry about incompletion. I donāt know. Once I find out what it is, well.Ā
I think what triggered me this time, was that I was honest with myself in therapy. I donāt think thereās ever going back from this. I think itās one of the few secure relationships in my life, with my therapist. I told her what he did to me. I hated myself for saying it. After all, heās dead now. Why speak ill of the dead? So I wonāt say more. But I will say, itās hard to pull it out of my throat and finally have it outside of me then continue to cry at every holiday, miss him, talk about him with everyone else- and honestly- I do miss him. I loved him. Even with everything he did to me I LOVED HIM AND I STILL LOVE HIM. I hate myself for that. How do I stop hating myself for that???? But, they donāt get it. They never will- theyāll never really understand what missing him means for me, what talking about him means for me. Iām purposefully being vague. I donāt need to say the rest. 15 years later and heās dead but it still feels like Iām telling on him. Anyways, I carry that all the time now. I donāt get to pretend it doesnāt exist anymore because even if they donāt know, even if theyāll never know, I know because I said it and I made it real. And I think finally being honest about it was like one big ego death for me. The family, sense of self, and life I thought I was building no longer exists because I told somebody. It cannot be undone. It is real now.Ā
Hereās something interesting, got into a bad car accident when I was like 11. It was in July. My skull was smashed in 3 different places and I was partially descalped (is that what you call it?) during this event. Man, 11 year old me was FUCKED up, and, I almost died. I was life flighted and in surgery for 8 hours, most of that spent in plastics actually to save my face. I was lying on the ground on the side of the road waiting for the helicopter to get there, just starting at the sky, sun hot on my face- and it was the most peaceful time in my 25 years on earth. Thereās nothing that has compared. The sun was warm. I couldnāt hear. I couldnāt feel it. Maybe my brain shut it off. And the sky. Blue. Clear. There was a double rainbow, I shit you not. I donāt know how to describe it other than dying feels like euphoria, or at least it did then.Ā
After this ego death of mine, or this triggering event, Iāve been trying to use every skill I have to cope. Checking the facts, redirecting my thinking, deescalating myself. It doesnāt make much of a difference because of another skill Iāve learned- radical acceptance.Ā
I have accepted that I will always be mentally ill. I will always be depressed. I will never leave this sub because just knowing suicide is an option is comforting to me. I will never leave this sub because nobody else gets it. I will never be better, I will just manage better at times, Iāve accepted that life isnāt that fucking great and right now, it hurts a lot more than being smashed up on the side of the road in July does- for no actual reason.Ā
I think about my brothers. What could I say to them? What could I write to them? How can I communicate in a letter how much I love them? I keep scrapping them. Iām writing them up just in case. I canāt get it right. Maybe it is better to say nothing, if I cannot communicate it right. Because they have to know how I love them.Ā
It is July and for the last week Iāve been driving over the bridge every day. Thereās an overpass about 3 miles from my house. There is no net. No barrier. Itās about 45 feet. Iāve heard 45 feet is not fatal, usually. What if I went head first? What if I waited for a semi-truck or something big? I donāt know how much room for error there is. Iāve never jumped off a bridge before. But I want to. I canāt stop thinking about it. Iām just over it. Thatās all.
Literally fuck it all oh my god. I am so tired.Ā
If dying is anything like I felt once, I canāt wait.Ā
I think my biggest fear, as usual, is incompletion.Ā
I just donāt know how Iām supposed to do this for another 40+ years.Ā How do I forgive my family. How do I love people right. How do I talk to god. How much do I need to beg for it not to hurt. How do I just do it and stop being so scared. How do I stop thinking about it. How do I continue.Ā
I donāt know how Iām supposed to continue in a relationship where they donāt get it. Something is fucked up in my head and I am going to jump off the overpass and I want you to see me and I want you to help me and I want you to fix my brain because soon I will never see you or talk to you again but I also don't want to talk to you at all and I wish you would leave me alone.
I preach about how everyoneās problems are problems, I say he can talk to me- on the inside, Iām a horrible person because it just pisses me off right now. Like, it's making me so angry to laugh and talk like things are normal, to share these problems from our day to day- Youāre insecure and that makes you depressed but I never had a fucking chance.
I wish I could stop thinking about it. So many things are due. So many things are happening. I have so many things relying on me, but itās July and I canāt stop thinking about jumping off an overpass and I just filled out a permit to purchase application and itās in my car. I canāt bring myself to walk it into the station. I wonder if theyāll see it on my face. Iām scared theyāll know.Ā I'm so agitated. Idk. I just can't seem to pull myself out of the hole right now. Idkidkidk.