Posted earlier and deleted... didn't take long to come back and write again. Backspaced it, and back again...
^^Once again decided to abort the post and restart. Litterally just keeping track of how many times I've changed my mind...
My soul is tired... Tired of fighting to live when all I want is peace. I live in near daily physical and deep-in-the-gut/emotional sorts of pain, and I'm really just running out of creativity in coming up with reasons to keep moving forward.
One of my best professor's once said, "If you don't remember why you are doing something, then stop and see if anyone notices!" It really works well in a production setting, but I've pretty muched stoped functioning and I'm starting to see that no one would care if I stopped occupying the space I take up.
I recently got rehired into a job that offers me some limitted connection with a small team that I really enjoyed the first time. That was over 2 weeks ago... so far, it's just been me asking when my remote access will be set up so I can actually work. We really, really need the money. And I really, really need the distraction. Now I just wonder if they've done nothing but waste my time (my old boss asked me if I'd be interested at Christmas time...) I'm not feeling like the "data expert" and "savior" they describe me as in emails - just disposable and disappointed.
I've nearly completely stopped cleaning. My husband is the industrious type, and I don't know how much more understanding I can expect him to be... He's suffocating any chance I have at getting through tasks by just always doing everything. What's the point in even being here? He's frustrated that I struggle, but when I used drugs to meet his productivity standards he abandoned me. I don't feel safe anymore, as I've been shown that he has no problem taking and throwing me away when I'm used up... I can't talk to him about my cravings, desire to die.... Nothing is safe, especially if I do manage to get through this and have everything held over my head in court.
The only thing that has kept me going, the only good thing I've ever done, is my baby girl. The thought of leaving her here without protection just splits what's left of my heart into pieces. Mental illness runs rampant in my family, and her dad just doesn't get it... I don't want her to go through the pain of life alone, without a mother. All I can think about is that I wish I killed myself when she was a baby so that she wouldn't know me. He could have easily found someone to take my place... probably still could.
I've been in therapy for around 6 months now (since after the drugs), and made it through CBT, DBT, and EMDR for my complex trauma before getting to harder drugs... None of those skills seem to work when shit really hits the fan, when I can even remember them. I still want to die. That's the only thing that's been there my whole life - knowing it ends.
Lately the pain has been worse. Pregnancy, not drugs ironically, made my teeth begin to crumble apart... I've been in pain for just over 5 years. Today I heard back from the first of many dental groups I've contacted for information, and my heart is broken because there's no way in hell I'll ever come up with $22 grand for surgery. I haven't much time before I won't even be able to eat a salad or smile... I've been waiting for bacteremia to kill me in the meantime with no such luck. What I'm afraid of more than the cost? Being denied pain medication after everything I've been through.
I've decided that if I ever do go through with it, even though I really don't care for opiates, that the best way to go would be boofing an excessive amount of herion (can't do needles) and just nodding away. Clearly don't want to get narcan and wind up a vegatable, but I guess that's the risk you take...
What keeps you guys around? Once I had dreams, but they've all hit the ground. I have therapy tomorrow, and I know I just have to make it until then... I just know that when I feel this bad it's impossible to get real sleep, and it's going to be a long 17 hours... I feel better just writing it all out to some degree, but I worry how much more resilience I can eek out.
TLDR: I'm sad, probably going to survive even though it doesn't feel like it, thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.