Thanks for the welcome. I haven't murdered or done anything like that causing me to search for a place to vent. It's just that my whole life has become a seeming, duplicitous mess filled with a mixture of truths and lies. I have an auto-immune problem, a really f'd up spinal situation, a few surgeries under my belt, chronic daily pain meaning that I can barely work if at all. I've (legally) been on huge amounts of opiates for years - as well as benzos, anti-depressants, amphetamines for a long time, and I like my Bourbon, too. Yet, I can tell NO one about all of this - even (and sometimes, especially) my therapist. I am a man, in my 40's, never married, no children, a biological family that I cannot stand and do not care to see, and a dog who loves me and I love her, even if she deserves a better master who would exercise her more.
I'm in a really, REALLY dark place right now, and I just don't know what to do anymore. My doctor is thinking of putting me in the hospital for various reasons, but I am terrified of going because I fear what may happen to me if someone looks up my nose. I have so many questions and cannot find answers. The bullet to the temple is not exactly the next course of action that I contemplate, but it is a choice that has been on the table (secretly, of course) since I was in my teens.
And now I am sitting here typing this all out on the internet and crying for no apparent reason.