Thursday, 7 April 2011

Five

So we meet again...
      Im finding it hard to breathe. The inner turmoil is growing thicker by the second. I can't shift it. Painful memories fill my brain, one after the other. All these thoughts are spinning around and around in my head trying to possess me. I can't focus, I can't think! It's too fast, I can't make any sense of it all. I feel like I've fallen way, way down into a deep dark, musky well. So deep that I cannot see the so called "light". Everyone always says, "There's always a light at the end of the tunnel, you'll get there". It's easy to say isn't it. So where is this "light"? Why can I not see it? This "light" seems like a figment of ones imagination, not mine that's for sure. I'm trapped in thick darkness. It's like there's an invisible force field surrounding me. I try to walk forward but I can't. The shield is to strong as though it is three brick walls built one after the other. I can't climb over, for I look up into the darkness as best I can. The walls seem to go for miles! It seems this way for I cannot see the top. It just fades into the darkness.
     What do I want? What do I expect? Is it perhaps a miracle cure? Do I expect to go to a church, be hit on the forehead as they say "Be gone!" Get up off the floor and yes it's gone!... Unlikely. The floor hey... ah yes, that is where I feel I deserve to be sitting. Not chairs, not beds, just on the dark dirty floor, maybe in a corner away from everybody else. That way they don't need to look at this hideous, discusting, pathetic excuse for a human being. Yes, that's me. I'm ashamed of the way I look. I ashamed of the way I feel. Why? Because I'm too ugly to look at and too messed up to bother with. How could anyone ever possibly love me! Is that what today is saying - "Just go now and slowly fade away, into the background, until, eventually... I am no more." I deserve nothing,ever! So what is the point? If I am so horrible, discusting, pathetic and non-deserving, why am I still on this earth?... Why am I indeed? This is a question that keeps spinning around in my head. Just go and do it then you moron! Yes, it does feel right. It feels meant to be, as though my destiny. Maybe very soon a good opportunity will reveal itself to me. Maybe I will make an opportunity. As the saying goes 'if it's meant to be it's up to me'. I guess that could be my answer right there. But, as there always seems to be one, on the other side of the coin there are the people who say they care for me. What to do. What to do. The guilt of letting these people down eats away at me like I'v drunk acid and it's slowly eating away through my whole body from the inside out. I wait and wait for it to consume me. But it seems to just be toying with me. Doing it the slowest most painful way possible. Nope, it's not going to let me die fast and peacefully. The mutual care I have with these people, weighs down on me heavier and heavier by the day. I cannot handle these very strong emotions that carry within. BE GONE! Oh perhaps it's just me that needs to be gone.

3 comments:

  1. Dearest Kim,

    You are an amazing person... kind and compassionate. Anyone that tells you otherwise is not really looking at you for you... but more likely they have been spending too much time looking in the mirror. -- I am not criticizing you for feeling this way, please don't see it like that. I can totally relate to feeling that way, just don't let them beat you. You are one of the very few people on this planet that I have ever felt true emotions towards.

    I will not pretend to understand how you feel, but I can relate to it very much. And I believe that you are capable of pulling through this very tough time, and truly hope that you will find the will power you need... I have always admired the strength of your spirit, which has at times really amazed me. And I know you have far more fight left in you, I know that it doesn't feel that way now... but it never does at the time.

    The fear of recovery is actually pretty common.
    Especially after being hurt like this. After all, if we never recover... it can't happen again. Right? -- Sounds good, but I doubt it really works out that way. Often just accepting that it happened and can't be changed is the best we can do.


    Mum sends her love also. <3
    And should you ever need, we are always here.

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  2. HI Kim!

    Sorry to see that you are so down. Although I don't know you all that well, I think I know you well enough to say that you have quite a number of positive points - you have a great sense of creativity and fun, your eyes are just incredible (what I call counsellors' eyes, because they show caring, compassion, pain, sadness, and a twinkle of fun). They send a message to other people in pain that you care, and will listen to them.

    I go through similar stages, and wonder, often, if I will ever be good enough, but my psychiatrist some years ago told me something that sustains me in my darkest moments. He said, "You have a gift of pain, and people can see it in your eyes, and they know that you care, and, by listening with your heart to their troubles, you can help them." I don't think I'm anyone special,(my blog is called "Journey of an Ordinary man, whioch is what I believe) but I DO care, and the fact that I suffer my own mental illness actually helps me, because I know, that, in my working life, I was a youth worker, counsellor, and TAFE teacher, and I think I did okay despite having my own stuff dragging me down.

    You have much in you that is a force for good (not to mention that creative humour), and I hope that you can find your own gifts that are within you.

    I will be over at the hospital tomorrow morning, and, if I see you around, I will say g'day!

    With warmth, Norm

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  3. Thank you both for your lovely kind words, it's muchly appreciated. It can be a bit daunting to put all this out there not knowing what the repercussion might be. Thank you both for the support x

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