s0laris
Bluelighter
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- Sep 18, 2007
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Summer, I shan't ever pretend to know exactly how you're feeling inside, we each carry our own demons with us, and each is as different as the people who are cursed by them.
However, I do believe I have a slight idea of how you may be feeling; like giving up, like any effort on your part will be negated by factors you cannot control: hopeless, helpless, alone. The funny thing about depression is that it feeds off its own creation. A cycle of negativity, becomes anger, becomes confusion, becomes misanthropic, becomes anhedonic, like a dark, murky sea rising each day, threatening to extinguish the light and the life we hold inside.
Life is beautiful, seriously, and you can claim that as bullshit rhetoric if you wish, I know I did. I did until I felt I couldn't go on, I had no purpose, no fight left. I felt my place was above this mortal plane to be the Father my daughter never had. And so, I tried to end it. Bottles and blood and pills and powders and razors and every possible way I could think of to escape the life I thought I hated.
Given I'm writing this; I survived. Every single time.
Failing at destroying myself was so ironic, I had failed my duty in life, I had been saved from an OD by Nalaxone, I died without planning to and failed when I actually tried. I laugh at it now.
My body is adorned in scars from self-injurious behaviour, and I spent years hiding them away. The physical manifestations of my psychological inadequacies.
However, I am alive, I am breathing, and given the amount of effort I put into not being that way, there's a fucking reason the Universe didn't let me die on the floor of my flat, alone.
Every day after the last attempt I woke up happy; if I had got my way, I wouldn't have experienced the joy of birdsong once more, the beauty of a Summer's day in the Pennines, the hand of one who shares my love, the birth of my Nephew.
Suicide is never, ever the only choice. It is but a lie woven by the hollow mask that depression wears.
Summer, I am always here for you.
To listen. To understand. To talk.
Please stay strong,
Connor.
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I tried multiple times but got to the point where I submitted to life, its beauty and the belief the universe still has plans for me. Its not an option unless I'm terminal. I am independent and value my time much more now. Happiness comes from within, put myself first but also do my best to spread positivity now and help people like they helped me when I needed it and did my best to refuse it all. I accept I have drug problems but I'm not trying to change that, I'm just being honest with myself and have things on a level balance now and trips are wonderful now not self destructive.
Getting over that felt like the last lesson I needed to learn before I could call myself an adult... only took me 27 years lol I was running away for a long time.
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