(This is my first time in TDS)
I feel Lonely. Angry, Irritable, Sad, I have a bad temper and have somewhat learned to manage it, in my mind i think about what im going to do before i do it and decide if the reprocussions are worth it (i think fast).. I feel as if life is just fucking with me and im wasting my time going in a circle.
Since moving to a new state in 07 I have lost all of my friends due to distance, lack of contact (them being too busy with the freinds near by and the new ones who took my place once i left, me and my 2 bestfriends were unseperable since elementary school.), and most of all my drug use that I'm working on ridding myself of, slowly but surely (well not surely but HOPEFULLY lol).
I lost my job and am living with my grandparents, normally people love being with their grandparents... when they're children, when you haven't seen them in a while, or even just for holidays.
But mine have been in my life for the entire thing, my mom was adopted by them, my dad never in my life.. it has been me, my mom who hates me because of my teen years and drug use, and my grandparents who tried to raise me right but failed due to the generation gap. They pay my bills and my way through my "life". They drive me CRAZY though, they always lie, say they never said something that they did infact say (as in insults to me as a worthless waste of a person, etc.)
They are getting older, it hurts to see them struggle to do easy tasks, but will not accept help from me. When something goes wrong it is always my fault, whether it had something to do with me or not. I do snap back sometimes and yell and get pissed off and hit a wall or something to vent my frustration out. They do everything for me financially. So I deal with it but I'm at the point where I can't take it anymore. It's been a loooong time to keep all the shit I have bottled up inside in me and I feel the "bottle" won't hold anymore so lately i've been having more of an attitude than usual because I refuse to hold in my emotions anymore.
The reason I need to live with them is and isn't simple at the same time.
I'm disabled, mentally.. bipolar as first then it was getting worse and I started becoming more and more paranoid so I was finally diagnosed to schizoaffective disorder, anxiety, depression... shit like that.
The gov't denies me disability and always says that it won't last more than a year... I've been diagnosed with all that for 12 years now. How the hell is that LESS than a year?
I had a job while on my DOC opiates.. then decided to try to better myself and went on Suboxone to start the cycle of being a "normal" working person.
Well, after years working there I was finally let go because of how I acted on and off. Great one day, a mess the next (didn't help that I would have to work with customers); BUT i was always nice to them, it was just the other employees who didn't like my mood swings. I also was one of the hardest workers there, I had gotten promotions and raises and everything.
After losing that job I could no longer support myself. (Hence why i've applied for disabilty multiple times, and now rely upon my grandparents to support me).
That's embarrasing enough due to the fact im 25 years old and have 2 children, who live with their mothers side of the family but I see them a lot. They are the only "sunshine" in my life currently. When I spend time with them it's like all the other bullshit is put aside and disappears. When they go home though the old mentality of mine comes back.
Their mother who I love to death (she doesn't feel the same towards me anymore), were together since freshman year in highschool we had our oldest child when we were only 15. We did the best we could to raise him, but we needed help from our families too.
Fast forward a few years and our relationship had started to fall apart slowly, abusive, cheating, lying etc. Then she became pregnant again, this time it was a girl. So that is how my children came about. I love them more than anything and would do anything for them.
Her and I finally ended our "relationship" if you would even still call it that by the way things were going.
I tried to kill myself with a knife, cut my wrists and thoat. She tried to stop me and I cut her on the leg. I went to jail.
Got out, Have been seeing a psychiatrist, finished a class called Violence No More (just so everyone knows, if you ever have anger or violent problems, don't think that class is a joke.. try it, I learned a LOT from it) plus finished all my probation and shit like that.
The story I just wrote is kinda scrambled in a timeline since but I hope you can understand or get a hint about what im trying to vent about.
Now... all these years later my kids mother is a crack addict and a prostitute. (I personally have never done crack, actually never even seen it in real life lol.. no idea how she picked up that habit, when I was with her we did downers). She's in jail now.
She will be out in a few months. Before jail she had a baby with her "pimp". (yes it does bother me that she would have a child with someone other than me, but i've changed in the way I react to situations)
I want her back in my life at least on talking terms when she gets out and is sober.. I want to make life as good as possible for her, our children, her other child and myself.
I would even accept the other child as my own if givin the opportunity (the baby is a different race than me, im white, the mothers white, my two kids are white, and the new baby isn't) that doesn't bother me. My life isn't about me anymore. Yes i need to better myself, but I would rather focus on the kids being happy. Even if that means me living in everyday hell.
I'm a changed person and I don't know if she would beleive me, or still be too scared to take a chance in letting me prove it to her.
I'm not just lonely as in alone. It's been 7 years that ive been single and with no friends, the no friends part is my fault. The no girl part is a choice, I want no one but her, I don't want life anymore confusing for the kids or myself by finding someone new.
So here I am venting.. scattered thoughts trying to just let the world know im not a bad person, im not a good person, im just misunderstood and have more going on in my mind that people around me are aware of and they wonder why i have an "attitude".
I go back to my psych next month and I start seeing a therapist to help deal with these issues and some that I don't want to bore you with, since I'm thinking this is a long enough post already.
Any advice on my life by my fellow BLers who have maybe been in a similar situation?
How did you/ or how are you working on these types of issues?
Any response would be much appreciated.
Thanks for reading if you did :D
Sorry if my story was too long or if it should go in another forum besides TDS.. I just feel im in "The Dark Side" of my life ATM. lol.
I didn't go into much detail about the drug addiction parts because before I fix those for good I want to make sure I have a good life set up ahead of me first so I kinda have a "goal" to reach.