Saturday, July 15, 2006

I don't know what to do to myself. I don't want to kill myself, because I'm more afraid of death than I am of life. I don't want to cut, because I've done that so much I'm bored with it, five years of it and it seems a bit anticlimatic; I need something newer and more severe. I don't want to overdose, because that would just make me sick and throw up all day tomorrow which wouldn't help me feel better in any way except that I'd lose weight. I don't want to use inhalents, because I really don't want to get addicted or go to Hell. I don't want to go drink alcohol, for those same reasons (I really am afraid of God). I don't want to burn myself, because I never could figure out how to do that properly. I guess I could go jump off the porch or the roof. I haven't done that since eigth grade. But that's not really new either.

It seems like I've done everything you can do to hurt yourself. I've punched walls, cut myself, burned myself, overdosed, drank, tried drugs... and I'm still miserable. All these things have just kept me alive. But they're probably condemning me at the same time.

There's got to be something left to do, something that will make me feel better... I can't have done everything...

Oh right. I know how to make myself feel totally miserable. This is the Josh cue. This is what Josh did before he overdosed. He said, I can't do all those things, so I'm going to overdose on drugs so I can feel like Lindsay did. So maybe now I'm supposed to say, I'll go look at porn so I can feel like Josh did. But I think that that would make me throw up far faster than the pills or the ipecac syrup I have been daydreaming of lately.

I....... don't........ know..........

10 comments:

view_from_the_fishbowl said...

maybe you could call me, and maybe we could find something to make you feel better, because none of those things ever will and you know it....

Anonymous said...

Second that.

You need to get some help here. Please tell your parents what's happening.

Anonymous said...

I am still worried, so I am posting again and asking you to please talk to somebody in IRL. I hope you're having a better day today.

Lindsay said...

i'm trying. i have a problem. i can be real in text pixels but i can't act real in reality, so people never know how bad it is. but i really am trying to reach out.

as of right now i have not hurt myself physically in any way.

Tmproff said...

This is going to sound terribly harsh, but maybe you should stop trying to do things to gain attention. I think you've come to a point where you realize that it's not the pain or high you crave from the things you do to yourself, it's the attention you get afterwards. Maybe not the attention (I have no clue) but the satisfaction knowing you've hurt yourself.

I love you very much lindsay, and it doesn't give me any satisfaction saying things like that. Maybe I'm way off base, but I dont think I am.

I'm not saying this to hurt you, I'm saying it to encourage you to think about the all important "Why". Why do you do these things, and what is the end result you crave?

It reminds me of an younger sibling trying to scare you every 5 mins. You'll flinch the first few times, but after a while, you'll stop being surprised and you'll start smacking your younger sibling around :)

What did I mean by that? You said you've tried everything to hurt yourself. All has lost it's effectiveness. Is the answer to try something more drastic?

Tmproff said...

One last thought

I've read your blog for a very long time now (probably over a year). I've heared read about your joy, your curiosity, your discoveries, and I've heard of your struggles.

All of these are normal parts of your teen / 20's experience. It makes me smile to hear you write about them (I went through many of the same experiences).

As to the struggles. When will you go on the offensive? When will you decide that no matter what, I'm strong enough to battle this..not just survive. I'm smart enough to know I dont want to end my life...that's not the answer.

I might not know how to overcome this, but I am going to find out how...once and for all

I'm sure you have heard of the term "Gut-check Time"
I think you have it in you to win this.

Lindsay said...

i know i have it in me to win this. i'm sure that i should just set my mind to it... this stupid bipolar makes it difficult. i think taht i am okay, and i will be fine, and i will survive, and then suddenly i can't. it's like the lowest feeling in the world. it's not something i honestly believe i can control.

as for the attention thing- i think that when i started doing these things, that's definitely why. now, though, i know that to get attention all i have got to say is 'i'm not okay.' like right now. i haven't hurt myself intentionally in any way in like three months or something, but i can get help by saying, 'this is how i feel.' hurting myself now has ceased to be about attention and it has become about trying to cope. at first i cut for attention. then i quit telling people about it.

i have thought about that though. about maybe i do this just to reach out. and i think it's true to an extent. but i don't think it's the real truth of why i do these things. i've talked to my therapist about this too, and i don't think she thinks that's why i do it either.

i know in my heart that some part of me is searching for self-esteem in the people around me. i know that i will never find it there. but right now i just need enough to get through today, and then through tomorrow.

i know a lot of people just do this stuff for attention. and i do need attention right now. but that's not why i would hurt myself. i would hurt myself because i'm addicted. i know that i don't have to do anything sensational to get people to be concerned or care about me.

even if it is attention that i am seeking solely (which i don't believe), then it is still a step for me, because until i was 14 i NEVER talked to anyone about my problems or how i was feeling. this also leads me to believe that hurting myself is mroe about the satisfaction i feel afterwards- the fact that this attention thing is really a second thought.

i think it's the abuse, the mental illness. mainly, at the moment, the mental illness. that kind of depression adn panic is difficult to describe i believe unless you have something like depression or bipolar.

i won't accept being called just another emo kid. ask anyone i know in real life. it's just not true.

Tmproff said...

I dont mind being the bad guy here. I thought very hard about what I was going to type before I did.

All I have to say is...get angry at me....prove me wrong....prove me wrong not on this blog, but in your real life.

I doubt I'll ever meet you, but I hope I've made an impact in your life lindsay.

Lindsay said...

i don't really want to bring this up again, but i can't end it this way either.
tmproff, i don't view you as 'the bad guy' in any situation. i just didn't agree with something you said. it happens all the time. the majority of what you say has really helped me. you have impacted my life. everyone that posts comments on here has.

i'm not angry with you. i was angry at the comment. i just don't think you understand my reasons for doing some things.

i can't really prove that comment wrong, but i can quit actually doing these things and just start talking about them before they happen to understand why i'm feeling the way i do. which is already occurring.

anyway, in some ways i'm glad you brought it up because it provided me with a way to better understand myself.

Tmproff said...

And maybe thats why I brought it up in the first place :)

I didn't think you'd figure that out; i'm impressed.