alright so, Im mildly collapsing mentally.
Ive isolated myself since rediscovering the horrors of my childhood, but its been like 2 years since Ive had an in person friendship. Pretty much the only person I see is my boyfriend and I know he is lying to me so the connection feels off and untrue.
it’s been a terribly cold winter- and I grew up where it’s sunny and hot in the winter, so I’ve been frigid and it hasn’t helped my depression. Today I slept until 4pm and when I am awake, Ive been making bad decisions to cope with my thoughts and feelings.
the idea of therapy is nice and all, until you feel stuck and words and practices don’t get through
I wonder what’s wrong with me, and then I remember how fucked up my brain chemistry is from being abused sexually, physically, and emotionally in the earliest years of my life- Im talking before I could walk
I just don’t know what to do. I feel like I can’t talk to anybody about any of this without the conversation derailing into discomfort and a feeling of embarrassment for me. Im not sure how to connect with the world or with people when my head is suddenly being flooded with memories of my past.
I thought getting out would make it go away, I thought I would get a chance to be free, but everyday is like a waking nightmare. And the worst part- Im somehow so good at pretending, that people around me think Im a capable, mentally stable adult. They look at me and they assume I have such a handle on things, that Im tidy and clean and nice and hardworking and I achieve things- and when they start to find out the opposite is true they view me with disgust.
I can’t see myself in the world
I can’t figure out how to connect with anyone
I can’t figure out how to make myself accept what’s happened
I feel directionless, and Im just really angry all of the time.
I don’t know how to get my old self back, and Im starting to wonder if Im so good at pretending that I even had myself fooled- that my “old self” was always a fantasy version of me who is nice and happy, unaffected by what happened to her, as if it all vanished into thin air because the moment had ended. And I pretended to be her because it’s easier than feeling so down all the time, but now the mask is starting to melt away, and it’s not easy to pretend.
And Im really not sure what to do or where to go.








